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Mount Zion : Sepulchral Portraits by John Yang (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherD.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

ISBN-10189102423X

ISBN-139781891024238

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038607547

Product Key Features

Book TitleMount Zion : Sepulchral Portraits

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicIndividual Artists / General, General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt, Photography

AuthorJohn Yang

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Volumes1 vol.

SynopsisMount Zion refers to an Orthodox Jewish cemetery in Queens, New York, built in 1893, sandwiched between a New York City Sanitation plant and the Long Island Expressway. ''Sepulchral portraits'' refer to miniature photographs once placed on many of Mount Zion's tombstones, a custom brought over by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. These images--often heavily retouched--were burned onto porcelain or metal tablets, and then glazed. The process was, at the time, advertised as permanent; but the ravages of the elements, pollution, and vandals have transformed these portraits into something else altogether. What remains of them--and what has become of them--is what John Yang has set out to portray in his own series of photographs, taken between 1994 and 1998. The result is a fiercely moving document, a meditation on morality, memory, the urban landscape, and the photographic process. Much like his subject matter, Yang's photographs are themselves memorials--to Mount Zion, to its urban environment, to its occupants, to the gesture of its sepulchral portraits, and to photography itself.