Ok, color me
confused. Our two most outspoken members, who are in no
uncertain terms
here to educate us, provide us with two photographs with
which I find
very little to commend. More fool me, I suppose. More
down
below:
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
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