{"id":182,"date":"2007-08-10T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2010-07-01T21:06:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:06:10","slug":"new-yorkgreen-wood-cemetery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/new-yorkgreen-wood-cemetery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Green-Wood Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/gateway.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/gateway.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Main Gate, Green-Wood Cemetery (Richard Upjohn, architect)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Today, I continued working on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments in Brooklyn\u2013specifically Green-Wood Cemetery. There are a number of memorials here of celebrated generals, but also many of the unsung who died on the battlefield. There are many other famous New Yorkers buried here as well. As I was setting up a shot of the Civil War Soldiers&#8217; Monument, I looked down and saw, at my feet, the grave of Leonard Bernstein, the conductor and composer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Clouds moved in during the afternoon, and as I was packing up my camera I spotted a diminutive stone fireman surrounded by flags and flowers. The first line of the inscription read: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: arial;\">On September 11, 2001, the rescuers at the World Trade Center not only saved over 25,000 lives \u2013 they saved America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: arial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/firefighter.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/firefighter.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial;\">Green-Wood Cemetery<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">The fireman was depicted almost as a doll-like figure despite the detailed uniform and equipment. Less a hero, more a huggable object. It&#8217;s a curious need, to fetishize these heroes of 9\/11 who were doing their jobs. Who acted as heroes as they did every day when confronted by burning buildings or other dangers. I was struck, however, by the face of the real firefighter in the laminated photos hung around the statue&#8217;s neck, his vitality a rebuke to the awkward carving and grandiose prose etched in stone.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Main Gate, Green-Wood Cemetery (Richard Upjohn, architect) Today, I continued working on a series of photographs of Civil War monuments in Brooklyn\u2013specifically Green-Wood Cemetery. There are a number of memorials here of celebrated generals, but also many of the unsung who died on the battlefield. There are many other famous New Yorkers buried here as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}