What
a good question Martin. I had in mind the bronze at Arlington Cemetery,
which, I find, is based on the photograph of the ‘second’, but apparently still
genuine, raising. I first encountered this image many, many years ago on
the well-known postage stamp, which, Mr Wik tells us, sold 137 million
copies. The parallel to my mind is the captured moment of frozen
action, with the actors intent on bending their efforts around a single focal
point.
From: martin
butterfield [ Sent: Sunday, 30 January 2011
12:55 PM To: Geoffrey
Dabb
Cc: Subject: Re:
[canberrabirds] An inelegant smudge
Geoffrey
In what sense
does it remind you of that famous bronze? Are you referring to the first
raising, the second raising or the controversy about whether the photographic
image was a staged shot? The wikipedia article about the battle for Iwo
Jima http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima
covers these possibilities.
Martin
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <>
wrote:
Reluctant though I am to inflict such an inelegant smudge on
you, the below murky squealing blob was snapped late afternoon (Campbell Park
again, I’m afraid) and later resolved itself, if that phrase is not too much of
an exaggeration, into no less than 4 fledgling D Firetails importuning a parent.
The frozen tableau reminds me for some reason of the well-known
bronze of the marines raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima. A
breeding record anyway.
