Manu Ell, Photo of Johny Dean (John Hutchinson Dean)
Reblogged with thanks to http://matamblr.tumblr.com
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Manu Ell, Photo of Johny Dean (John Hutchinson Dean)
Reblogged with thanks to http://matamblr.tumblr.com
Photographer Unknown, “Dimtrr”
Images reblogged with thanks to the artist’s site: Instagram @ dmitrr
Artist and Title Unknown, Red Circles
Photographer Unknown, (In the Stall with Yellow Nikes)
Photographer Unknown, (White Streams)
Photographer Unknown, (The Water Sprayer)
Ron Griswold, “Spring (The Rising Sun)”, Oil on Canvas
Photographer Unknown, (Kneeling), Gekatin Silver Print, Date Unknown, Model Unknown
“Es war eine ungewöhnliche Last, die ich auf meinem Weg nach Warschau mitnahm. Nirgends hatte das Volk, hatten die Menschen so gelitten wie in Polen. Die maschinelle Vernichtung der polnischen Judenheit stellte eine Steigerung der Mordlust dar, die niemand für möglich gehalten hatte. […]
Ich hatte nichts geplant, aber Schloß Wilanow, wo ich untergebracht war, in dem Gefühl verlassen, die Besonderheit des Gedenkens am Ghetto-Monument zum Ausdruck bringen zu müssen. Am Abgrund der deutschen Geschichte und unter der Last der Millionen Ermordeten tat ich, was Menschen tun, wenn die Sprache versagt.
Ich weiß es auch nach zwanzig Jahren nicht besser als jener Berichterstatter, der festhielt: ‘Dann kniet er, der das nicht nötig hat, für alle, die es nötig haben, aber nicht knien – weil sie es nicht wagen oder nicht können oder nicht wagen können.'”
(“I took an extraordinary burden to Warsaw. Nowhere else had a people suffered as much as in Poland. The robotic mass annihilation of the Polish Jews had brought human blood lust to a climax which nobody had considered possible. […]
Although I had made no plans, I left my accommodations at Wilanow Castle feeling that I was called upon to mark in some way the special moment of commemoration at the Ghetto Monument. At the abyss of German history and burdened by millions of murdered humans, I acted in the way of those whom language fails.
Even twenty years later, I wouldn’t know better than the journalist who recorded the moment by saying, ‘Then he, who would not need to do this, kneels down in lieu of all those who should, but who do not kneel down – because they do not dare, cannot kneel, or cannot dare to kneel.'”)
—Willy Brandt, Erinnerungen
Note: The quotation used by Brandt is from Ein Stück Heimkehr’s article entitled “A Partial Homecoming”, which appeared in Issue No. 51, Der Spiegel, December 14, 1970
Photographer Unknown, (White Robe), Photo Shoot
Photographer Unknown, (Green Strapping and Earring)
Photographer Unknown, (Winter Snow)
“The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long-cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. All human claims to the landscape were superseded, made null and void by the snow. The world was one world, and the notion that a man might kill another over some small patch of it did not make sense.”
–David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Photographer Unknown, (Heart and Star)
Photographer Unknown, (The Cigarette Smoker)
Josh Bulriss, “The Buddha Project”
Josh Bulriss is traveling all across Asia in search of Buddhas, many of them lost or unknown to most visitors. Fascinated by Buddhism from his first trip to Asia ten years ago, Bulriss has built a strong fanbase for his art works and prints online, especially on social media Instagram where he has built a following of more than 33,000 people who find inspiration from his work, and Buddhist sayings he shares with them.
Now he’s back on the road for “The Buddha Project,” aiming to be the first photographer to capture a variety of Buddhas from across Asia. The collection will be produced in his first fine-art book.
The Buddha Project : http://www.joshbulriss.com/buddha-project
Wings and Straps of Red
“Not everyone who comes to your doorstep with a bowl is a beggar. Some of them are actually winged creatures in disguise.”
―Paul Barnikole