And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"...At the time, he was working at T. Iwata's Camera shop when a customer came in, purchased an expensive camera, but needed some instruction in how to fully operate it. Kira and the customer went to several locations, including the Hollywood Dam. There Kira asked the customer to sit on the steps and took this image. The visual simplicity of the image of the repetitive shapes, accentuated by one sole sided figure, is a synthesis of western modernity and Asian sensibility. Dennis Reed, the Japanese-American photography authority of Kira prints has commented that "this is one of his finest photographs." As with many art works by the Japanese American artists, much of it was abandoned, lost or destroyed during WWII. Three other prints of this image have been located: in the Collection of Dennis Reed, Glendale, California; the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and a private collection. The photograph offered here is believed to be the only print of this image to have been offered at auction....."
More like contemplating how to get out of there.
ReplyDeleteLocation, anyone? Wondering if this is a construction worker on a dam.
ReplyDeleteGood guess. Certainly no running up those steps, Rocky style!
ReplyDeleteNobody knows what I’m doing here,
ReplyDeleteAnd I ain’t got a clue.
The Science Lecture Hall at U.C. Irvine was as steep as this.
ReplyDeleteThis photograph is titled "The Thinker" and was taken around 1930 by Japanese-American photographer Hiromu Kira.
ReplyDeleteThe image depicts a solitary figure sitting on the steep, curved concrete steps of the Mulholland Dam in Los Angeles.
It is a notable example of modernist art photography from the 1920-1940
"...At the time, he was working at T. Iwata's Camera shop when a customer came in, purchased an expensive camera, but needed some instruction in how to fully operate it. Kira and the customer went to several locations, including the Hollywood Dam. There Kira asked the customer to sit on the steps and took this image. The visual simplicity of the image of the repetitive shapes, accentuated by one sole sided figure, is a synthesis of western modernity and Asian sensibility. Dennis Reed, the Japanese-American photography authority of Kira prints has commented that "this is one of his finest photographs."
DeleteAs with many art works by the Japanese American artists, much of it was abandoned, lost or destroyed during WWII. Three other prints of this image have been located: in the Collection of Dennis Reed, Glendale, California; the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and a private collection.
The photograph offered here is believed to be the only print of this image to have been offered at auction....."
Thanks for the I.D.
He could leap, leap, leap, leap..... to his gradual death.
ReplyDeleteI have an almost irresistible urge to post "Splitters!" when I see this photo.
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