thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月19日 04時26分

Photo: @davidb383 // It was the first time I'd walked the edge of the Tidal Basin in a couple of years. Not living in #DC anymore, I don't make that pre-dawn cherry-blossom gazing run much anymore. I was working on a story for the @WashingtonPost Magazine on The National Mall: America's Front Yard, last summer, and realized there were a number of new installations I hadn't had the chance to see. It was a walk of discovery, the most fun thing you can do with a camera. Walk, look, observe, and when that moment comes, you just reflexively grab a camera and make a picture. Just past the old polo fields (now popular with softball players and teams of Cricketeers) is the FDR Memorial. The thematic statues (the jobless workers, for example) are beautifully executed, as is the simple presentation of FDR in his wheel chair. Then, in continuing down to the water's edge, and hanging a left, you all of a sudden see a tall, powerful image, rough hewn, of white stone. It stops you in your tracks. Behind it is a large mass, seemingly a mountain, out of which this stunning rock portrait has been cut, and pushed, as if by the hand of #God, forward 30 yards or so. It depicts a very contemplative #MartinLutherKing, Jr. arms crossed, gazing across the water. Etched into the stone statue is the phrase "Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope." It is brilliant beyond belief. I stood there, eyeing through my Canon, and felt enveloped by the same emotions I remembered from that terrible evening in the spring of 1968 when news of his assassination came across the network in the Kappa Sigma basement TV room. A feeling of hair-raising anger and sadness. And now, nearly fifty years later, all I could hear, buried deep within my head were the melodic words of Dion's song,
"Anybody here, seen my old friend Martin -
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed a lot of people, but it seems the good die young
But I just looked around and he's gone."


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