Memento Mori: An Evening with Paul Koudounaris

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Sunday, Jul 17, 2022  6pm - 8pm

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Bright Side Bookshop is excited to host Paul Koudounaris on Sunday, July 17 at 6:00 pm.

Join Paul Koudounaris, regional Arizona author, for a presentation and signing of his book, Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us (paperback edition published June 21, 2022). His lecture will be accompanied by a full slideshow of unforgettable images from seldom visited deathscapes.

Admission to this event is free.

TICKETING OPTIONS:

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Ticketing Options (all prices include associated sales tax and fees):

Option 1: Admission to event with no book purchase. NO CHARGE.***

Option 2: Admission to event and a paperback copy of Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us ($40.00 retail price)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Paul Koudounaris is an American author and photographer from Los Angeles. He has a PhD in Art History, and his publications in the field of charnel house and ossuary research have made him a well-known figure in the field of macabre art and art history. He is also a feline historian whose book, A Cat's Tale, told feline history in the voice of his rescue cat, Baba the Cat. He is a member of The Order of the Good Death, and is currently based in Tuscon, AZ. Paul's Instagram account, @hexenkult, has 110K followers.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Through photos taken at more than 250 sites in seventy countries over a decade, Paul Koudounaris captured death around the world. From Bolivia's Fiesta de las Ñatitas, where skulls are festooned with flowers and given cigarettes to smoke and beanie hats to protect them from the weather to Indonesian families who dress mummies and include them in their household routines, he has studied and photographed a stunning variety of ways the dead may be preserved to interact with the living. In between are naturally preserved Buddhist monks, memorials to genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia, Europe's great ossuaries, and crypts of mummies still in situ after countless centuries. All of this is present in his book Memento Mori, which defies taboo to demonstrate ways in which the dead continue can continue to play an important spiritual and social role.

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