Cleveland Photographer Barney Taxel Turns His Lens On Lake View Cemetery @LVC_Cleveland

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Through Tue 11/25

Sat 11/29 @1PM

Sat 12/6 @ 2PM

Unless maybe you run in goth circles you might not think of a cemetery as a cultural center. But that’s precisely what Lake View Cemetery, sitting in on the intersection of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland, is. Its nearly 300 acres are a nature preserve, a park, an outdoor art and architect museum, a setting for concerts and other special events, and repository of history, the final resting place of a president along with thousands of other eminent Clevelanders from Eliot Ness to Harvey Pekar.

Eminent local photographer Barney Taxel, with more than four decades of professional photography under his belt, has documented all of that in his new book The Lake View Cemetery: Photographs From Cleveland Historic Landmark. His 200-plus photos show the artistic details on the masoleums, graves and monuments as well as the landscapes they sit in, the geological formations, the horticulture, the visitors and even a glimpse of the surrounding neighborhood, documented in every season. He goes inside the James A. Garfield Monument and Wade Chapel to reveal their beautiful interiors. His wife, Laura, best known for her food writing, contributed the introduction and essays introducing the sections.

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A selection of 20 photos from the book will be on view at the community mausoleum at Lake View Cemetery through Sun 11/24. It’s free.

The Taxels will be making two in-store appearances at Loganberry Books to sign the book, which of course you can purchase there. Those happen Sat 11/29 at 1pm and Sat 12/6 at 2pm.

www.lakeviewcemeterybook.com

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Cleveland, OH 44106

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