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Article: PAPERBACKS; Sensual marble beauties grace graves, haunt the living; Photographer tours European cemeteries, examines role of female statuary as art.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 6, 2000
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Photographer David Robinson became fascinated with the women he saw in Paris' Pere Lachaise cemetery and decided to photograph them and try to discover their stories. But it wasn't the women attending the graves of loved ones who piqued his interest, but the statues that adorned the graves.
"Saving Graces: Images of Women in European Cemeteries" (W.W. Norton, 128 pages, $15.95) takes the reader into some of Europe's most famous "modern" cemeteries - primarily 19th-century cemeteries modeled after Pere Lachaise, which opened in 1807. Robinson's interest took him on a Cook's Tour of Europe: to two other Paris cemeteries, Montmartre and Passy, to Versailles, to ...
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