Flores para los Muertos, Photograhs of the Historic Key West Cemetery (English and Spanish Edition)

The photographs in this beautiful hard cover coffee table book represent Michael A. Philip's long fascination with Key West's historic cemetery (c.1847) located in the center of Old Town. The whitewashed aboveground tombs and statues attract thousands of tourists each year. What interests Philip are the flowers and offerings mourners leave behind. His vibrant photographs were inspired by the still-life paintings of the Dutch Masters whose attention to color, composition, and 'incidental' objects reveal important clues about their subjects' lives. The book with dust jacket is printed in full color on archival, high quality, acid free, coated matte photographic paper with chemical free ink. The book's 6x9 inch format has an intimate feel. Alongside the photographs, poetry in Spanish with English translation by the Cuban poet Aicercul give voice to Philip's photographic journey. This is a book you will enjoy again and again.