Photography

Barker, J. & Gay, F. 1984

Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla, London: John Murray.

Brunhoff, A. de 1978

Souls in Stone: European Graveyard Sculpture, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf.

Gillon, E. 1972

Victorian Cemetery Art, New York, NY: Dover Publications.

Heng, T. 2018

‘Photographing absence in deathscapes’, Area, 53:2, 219-228.

Holleran, S. 2023

‘Cheeky monuments: photo-engraved headstone and image moderation in cemeteries’, Photographies, 16:1, 49-69.

Jones, B. 1967

Design for Death, London: Andre Deutch.

Reyes-Cortez, M. 2013

‘Maintaining the dead in the life of the living: national culture and photography in the cemeteries of Mexico City’, in M. Aaron (ed) Envisaging Death: Visual Culture and Dying, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 26-49.

Robinson, D. & Koontz, D. 1996

Beautiful Death: Art of the Cemetery, Harmondsworth: Penguin Studio.

Taylor, J. 1998

Body Horror: Photojournalism, Catastrophe and War, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract