On Jun 22, 2013, at 9:59 PM, asharpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I don’t know about Randy, but the photographs I enter here are almost never ones I pull off my web site, as when one is getting 200k+ hits every month it is possible that the folks here have already seen everything I have on my site. So I dig into my archives and pull out shots which have not seen the light of day for some time, or in this case, since 1985. I’m not sure my job here is to educate, as some members here already know everything and are therefore unteachable. My bunker shot may need some background since it was originally displayed as part of a show called Weapons in the Dunes. So let’s see if I can educate anybody looking for a bit of history. Can I assume that somebody looking at this image will have heard of WW2? OK - how about Hitler? Anybody? Hitler built his Reich to last 1000 years and in the planning stages, somebody clever decided to fortify the coast of Europe with a chain of artillery positions in hardened bunkers stretching from the top of Denmark’s Jutland Peninsula all the way along the coastlines of Denmark, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France to the northern border of Spain. Hitler and friends called it "The Atlantik Wall”. This bunker was part of that wall, but in the interim the sand supporting it shifted and it fell to the beach where it rests today. It weighs an estimated 350 tons (Danish Army estimate) and the Danish ‘wall’ bunkers cost Germany 5.5 billion Deutschmarks and used every available cubic yard of concrete and all the rebar available to Germany during WW2. The comment about ‘burning in”? This is a scan from the negative, not a print. Anybody scanning from prints can’t be serious. This print won some awards in the 1980’s and 1990’s, but y’all must not have been around then. It is in the collections of four museums. Andrew? Your images of plants are much more interesting and thoughtful than anything you’re doing now as you seem to still be focused on small plants rather than anything built by man. Art Faul The Artist Formerly Known as Prints ------ Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com Greens: http://www.inkjetprince.com Camera Works - The Washington Post . |
