Eternal Silence, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
A couple weeks ago I sold two photographs that I took in Graceland Cemetery of a monument called Eternal Silence. One of the photos is shown above.
The author who purchased the photos writes books about odd things found in a geographic area. So far he’s got Weird NJ and Weird USA under his belt and right now he’s working on Weird IL. There’s also a website about the strange finds and they’ve even been featured on The History Channel.
A sidenote about the Eternal Silence monument - The statue is made of bronze and as bronze is exposed to the elements over the years it turns bluish and black like you see in the photo. The coloring is what gives the figure it’s creepy look. But when I toured the cemetery they were talking about restoring the statue to it’s original state so that it would look like brand new shiny bronze and won’t have this blue/black patina. I’m so glad I got to photograph the monument before they restored it.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Kevin Walsh // Jan 28, 2005 at 8:48 am
>>>>The author who purchased the photos writes books about odd things found in a geographic area. So far he’s got Weird NJ and Weird USA under his belt and right now he’s working on Weird IL.
2 rachelle // Jan 28, 2005 at 9:27 am
yup.. tis one of the two marks. kind of confusing .. they coauthor books and they have the same first name. and yes, I’m happy! can’t wait to see the book when it’s published. they promised to send one to me.
3 joe // Jan 28, 2005 at 11:24 am
Congrats! You can hear the Marks interviewed on Jonesville Station.
That statue reminds me of the evil emperor from the Star Wars movies.
4 tien // Jan 28, 2005 at 11:52 am
isn’t that more green than blue?
5 rachelle // Jan 28, 2005 at 4:51 pm
i think it’s aquamarine. or teal.
6 rachelle // Oct 12, 2005 at 8:16 pm
mark just sent me a copy of the book and let me know that even though they purchased a few photos off me they didnt actually use any of them in the book.
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