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"On the afternoon of February 23, 1945,
the Associated Press photographer Joe
Rosenthal, standing at the top of Mt.
Suribachi, on Iwo Jima, raised his camera
hastily and, without looking through
the viewfinder, took the most famous
picture of the Second World War. United
States forces had landed on the island
four days earlier. When the invading
troops captured the mountain, five
marines and a Navy corpsman attached
an American flag to a heavy water pipe,
then stuck the pipe in the ground and
began to push it upright. Snapped at
that instant, the photograph is an
accidental masterpiece of classical
construction, with the diagonal line
of the pole supported by the surging,
upraised arms of the men and balanced,
at the base, by a marine poised at
a right angle to it. None of the faces
are visible, and the bodies seem bronzed,
as if some sculptor with a taste for
the monumental and the obvious had
shaped insensible flesh into an icon
of spiritual and patriotic glory"
-david denby, the New Yorker
i usually hate the guy who wrote this but sometimes he's illuminating. maybe i'm just a big fan of accidental beauty, because i don't understand it, and if i did, it might not be beautiful anymore.
]
He just finished eating dinner
And stepped outside the cave to smoke
A cigarette he made from rolled up photo paper
They were pictures of things back on earth
He looked out on a greyish white expanse
On uninhabited terrain he now called home
He'd seen plenty of mirages and imaginary visitors
Up until then so he wasn't sure what to think when
He saw swans and they were wading
On the shores of a pale white lake
That he'd never seen before
And it was quite beautiful and it was far away
Cause everything beautiful is far away
He knew he was as good as gone
But gone was somewhere he really didn't mind going to
Since the shuttle had crashed many years had passed
And the pictures of his loved ones
That he drew on the walls of the cave had finally faded
He put out his smoke and proceeded
Toward the lake repeating to himself
Everything beautiful is far away
the Associated Press photographer Joe
Rosenthal, standing at the top of Mt.
Suribachi, on Iwo Jima, raised his camera
hastily and, without looking through
the viewfinder, took the most famous
picture of the Second World War. United
States forces had landed on the island
four days earlier. When the invading
troops captured the mountain, five
marines and a Navy corpsman attached
an American flag to a heavy water pipe,
then stuck the pipe in the ground and
began to push it upright. Snapped at
that instant, the photograph is an
accidental masterpiece of classical
construction, with the diagonal line
of the pole supported by the surging,
upraised arms of the men and balanced,
at the base, by a marine poised at
a right angle to it. None of the faces
are visible, and the bodies seem bronzed,
as if some sculptor with a taste for
the monumental and the obvious had
shaped insensible flesh into an icon
of spiritual and patriotic glory"
-david denby, the New Yorker
i usually hate the guy who wrote this but sometimes he's illuminating. maybe i'm just a big fan of accidental beauty, because i don't understand it, and if i did, it might not be beautiful anymore.
]
He just finished eating dinner
And stepped outside the cave to smoke
A cigarette he made from rolled up photo paper
They were pictures of things back on earth
He looked out on a greyish white expanse
On uninhabited terrain he now called home
He'd seen plenty of mirages and imaginary visitors
Up until then so he wasn't sure what to think when
He saw swans and they were wading
On the shores of a pale white lake
That he'd never seen before
And it was quite beautiful and it was far away
Cause everything beautiful is far away
He knew he was as good as gone
But gone was somewhere he really didn't mind going to
Since the shuttle had crashed many years had passed
And the pictures of his loved ones
That he drew on the walls of the cave had finally faded
He put out his smoke and proceeded
Toward the lake repeating to himself
Everything beautiful is far away