Category: monuments
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curves #2
#1 Marfa, TX #2 Johor Bahru Feb 2016 #3 Calgary 2016 #1 -3 Clay Ellis exhibition, Third Stake Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta, July 2016 #4 Sun Studio, Memphis, TN, September 2013 #1 Waxworks Museum, Melantrichova St #2 Rudolf Kremlička, mural in Fénix Palace arcade, Wenceslas Square #3 Prague Castle #4 Jan Štursa, statues…
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ashes to ashes (Prague cemeteries #3)
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague’s Old Town, with its picturesque gravestones leaning drunkenly on one another, is a familiar stop on the tourist trail. The New Jewish Cemetery established in 1890, adjacent to the Christian cemeteries at Olšany, is less well known, though pilgrims do come here in search of Franz Kafka. Aside from…
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a beautiful garden next door to history (Prague cemeteries #1)
A post mostly for Czech and Bohemist friends Maestro! You have brought to an end a great work and are departing to eternal sleep. The Czech nation and Prague are burying you in the most sacred place, in Vyšehrad, in the most noble place … In Vyšehrad, seat of the Princess Libuše, you will talk…
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Je t’aime, moi non plus
the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002
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verticals #2
We have family in Malaysia and Singapore, hence the many photos from SE Asia. Singapore, January 2006. Statue is Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore. Shanghai, April 2012 Singapore, June 2022 Johor Bahru, July 2022
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