CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/13/2024

ICP presents Eugene Richards on 'Remembrance Garden'

Thursday, June 13, from 6:30–8:30 PM, International Center of Photography presents photographer Eugene Richards speaking and showing work from his latest book, Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery, as well as the series In This Brief Life. A lecture by Richards will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing in the ICP Cafe. Tickets here.

About the Book
In March 2020, after suffering from a severe bout of COVID, Eugene Richards sought out a safe place to walk and recuperate, and became entranced with Brooklyn’s much-loved Green-Wood Cemetery. Founded in 1837 and proclaimed a National Historic Landmark in 2006, the 487-acre burial ground and arboretum is the final resting place of more than 550,000 people. Over the subsequent years, Richards made nearly 100 visits to Green-Wood, photographing both poetical details and grand vistas in rich color, across the seasons and in all weather, creating lyrical images of snowbound headstones, grand mausoleums, intimate epitaphs, the encroachments of moss on stone and the wear of time on all things. The photographs in Remembrance Garden were taken between April 2020 and September 2023. Richards intersperses his images with names and dates inscribed on grave markers and deeply personal memories, creating a grand and moving portrait of the legendary cemetery.

Eugene Richards presents 'Remembrance Garden'
Thursday, June 13, 6:30–8:30 PM
International Center of Photography
79 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002
Tickets here.