jueves, 8 de enero de 2009

A piece of news (1): Ashes to Art in Library of Dust

I took this picture from, click to this link to see the complete piece of news, on Thursday, Jan. 2009. the one Californian photographer,David Maisel

This is a picture very fantastic and horrifying; but is copper canisters in which there are ashes of human bodies who were burned between 1913 and 1971.

the picture is from the book Library of Dust/Chronicle Books

Speaks in this press release that due to flooding, underground or in warehouses where the cans were saved due to the passage of time, caused the cracks, etc. .. The boats have become color and beauty. Maisel said: "This is the beauty and horror"

Cans containing the remains of 5121 people who were admitted to the hospital Salem (Oregon), the people who are in cans was because his family had no money to pay for a funeral or not claiming the corpses.


The hospital had saved the cans secret that till recently the director change and decided to tell everything