About the Exhibition
Opening reception: Friday, February 15, 6 - 8 pm
Ed Snyder will be showing twenty images spanning his 10-year study of cemetery statuary. The exhibit merges art and photography with society’s desire to come to terms with death and dying. Ed Snyder has been making photographs since the late 1970s, and began showing them in 1982 through the Phoenix Street Gallery in New York. Since moving to Philadelphia in 1984, he has exhibited his work through such venues as the June Gallery, Community Cultural Center/USA Gallery, the Philadelphia Sketch Club and Plastic Club. He is represented by Bergen Galleries in New Orleans and Luminosity in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Sande-Webster Gallery in Philadelphia and the Photo District Gallery in NYC. He is a member of the Philadelphia Photographic Society. A recent show of all New Orleans cemetery photography benefited the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with profits donated to the Red Cross Relief Effort.
Mr. Snyder is a Biomedical Engineer at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where he is involved in the research, development, and clinical practice of advanced cardio-pulmonary life support for babies. With cemetery photography, then, his interests literally run from cradle to grave. The bridge? No matter how disparate medicine and art may appear, there is a connectedness--while they are not considered sciences, there is a precision to each, borne of technology, that is necessary for their success.
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