Robert Schultz
schultz@roanoke.edu
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The Grass Over Graves

Binh Danh

Washington & Lee University

Stanier Galler


A leafprint renders the portrait of Dwayne C. Bowen, 26, a casualty of the Vietnam War, from LIFE Magazine's "One Week's Dead" issue of 1969

Robert Schultz stands next to his Daguerreotype portrait and a rendering of his poem "Amulet."

Two Daguerreotypes: a photogram of maple leaves is paired with a passage from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

A Daguerreotype photogram of a leaf reflects leafprints of American Vietnam War casualties on an adjacent wall

A Daguerreotype taken in the Stonewall Jackson Cemetery reflects leafprints of Vietnam War casualties on the facing wall