--- Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This portrait of Jack and Bobby Kennedy was made in > Mexico, shortly after > Bobby's assassination. The scene was just as you see > it, and, to me at > least, it told a compelling story. Comments and > criticisms are certainly > welcome. > > http://home.earthlink.net/~sbelinkoff/bj4.html > > Shel >
Shel, I remember, as an 11 year old boy, waking up on the morning of June 6, 1968, hearing the awful news. It's now called the "summer of love", but at the time it didn't feel like it to me. First, Martin Luther King Jr., then Bobby Kennedy. Images of American inner cities burning. Images of young men dying in Vietnam. The Democratic Convention. Even at 11, I felt that there was something very wrong. The feeling was that Bobby Kennedy would somehow lead the US and the World out of that mess, and that with him died the dream of a better society. I'm a lot older and more cynical now, and I realize that maybe things wouldn't have changed that much had Bobby Kennedy become president. But, at the time, he seemed like the last good chance. Shel, your photo brings back intense emotions for me. In and of itself, it is, of course, a powerful image. The icons of death surrounding the two busts are haunting, as is the mocking, laughing figure to the left of Jack. Did you arrange any of those figures, or did you photograph the scene as you found it? It's such a macabre display, it's almost unreal. I wonder what the person who set it up was thinking (if anything). Everything works for me here, from the composition to the relatively narrow DOF - this is a tremendous photograph, IMHO. I just hope that my emotions aren't colouring my objectivity with regard to my feelings regarding this image. cheers, frank ===== "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
