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Image 1. The grave of Charles-Phillipe Lafont (1781-1839). "Ils furent émerveillé du beau voyage qui les mena jusqu'au bout de la vie" ("They marveled at the beauty of the voyage that brought them to the end of life.")

Image 2. A staring couple

Image 3. A French portrait

Image 4. Père Lachaise in summer

Image 5. The Blue Woman waits.

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Image 7. Silence

Image 8. The chess problem

Image 9. Cherub and skull

Image 10. Many graves have small oval photos,
embedded in porcelain that is often cracked and broken.

Image 11. This is not a double-exposure, but a stained glass window
seen through a glass door that reflects the trees and sky behind me.

Image 12. Bosselet

Image 13. This plaque is on the Mur des Fédérés, in Père Lachaise cemetery, where perhaps as many as 1,500 people were shot during the suppression of the Paris Commune in 1871. The Commune was the largest urban revolt of the 19th century and is still remembered as a great uprising in defiance of a bankrupt empire, a repressive church and a corrupt bourgeoisie.

Image 14. Pillas photo

Image 15. The Gourlot statue

Image 16. The Haber family. "...killed during deportation to the
extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau...Do not pardon, do not forget"

Image 17. Three photos

Image 18. Hillside tombs

Image 19. An empty boat

Image 20. Gloves

The Human World

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