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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Eight: A city portrait -- impressions of New York > Sarcophagus, Grant’s Tomb, New York City, New York, 2009
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23-MAR-2009

Sarcophagus, Grant’s Tomb, New York City, New York, 2009

Ulysses S. Grant is entombed within an 8 ½-ton red granite sarcophagus in the center of the mausoleum. Julia Grant was interred within an identical sarcophagus at her husband’s side after her death in 1902. I photograph the Grant sarcophagus as a reflective abstraction of a geometric slab seemingly floating within the curving marble of the tomb’s sanctuary. By converting the image to black and white, I suggest a funerary tone and remove the warm color of morning light that fills the sanctuary.

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