Mountain View Portraits

Media: photography

Number of images: 52

Print size: 16x20 inches

Execution: 2017


A series of photographs from the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.


Following his 1858 success of the design of Central Park in New York City, the landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, envisioned the Mountain View Cemetery also as a park. It opened in 1865 and is the resting place for many well known and unknown citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area.


The recent use of photo related processes enable families of the deceased to affix a portrait from life to the headstones. The concept, which is ancient, is a modern shift from a memorial consisting of the written word to an visual based memory.


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