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How to Spend the Afterlife: A Conversation with Carolyn Campbell and Michael Webb

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JOIN US for UCLA Art Sci Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) on Nov 19. Authors Carolyn Campbell and Michael Webb discuss the inclusivity of cemeteries in which the tastes of the living are perpetuated for all time. The inevitably of death and environmental concerns contribute to a fascinating spectrum of burial grounds across the world that are pastoral, moving or surreal. Beginning with world-famous Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, based on Campbell’s bestselling book, City of Immortals she and Webb illustrate their conversation with their personal photography collections. Within this important dialogue we will be invited to think critically about how we can simultaneously care for the deceased, the living, and our planet.

Carolyn Campbell
Is a published writer and an exhibited photographer from Washington, DC. Carolyn has lived in Paris and is now a resident of Los Angeles. Her bestselling book, City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris has been reviewed by art, travel and lifestyle press, including Artillery Magazine,  Los Angeles Times, American Cemetery and Cremation and Drift Travel  magazines. A summa cum laude graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, she has held positions with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the American Film Institute, and UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture. She is currently working as an arts and communications specialist and lecturing about City of Immortals.

Michael Webb
Hon. AIA/LA has authored 25 books on architecture and design, most recently Architects' Houses, Building Community: New Apartment Architecture, and a memoir, Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering, while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States, Asia and Europe. Growing up in London, he was an editor at The Times and Country Life, before moving to the U.S., where he directed film programs for the American Film Institute through the 1970s and curated a Smithsonian exhibition on the history of the American cinema.
 

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