Black and White

Eisenstaedt and Goebbels
stark colors, black and white
evil captured still life
on the page, staring back at all of us
unspoiled by propaganda, big lies
Clear, unadulterated evil
staring us square in the face
Wake up to evil, if only we did
act when we could
long before the costs
of world war

September 4, 2006 19:05

Black and White

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/09/black-and-white.html

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edited April 25, 2015

The Granary – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-granary-v2.html

January 30, 2010

The Granary

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/01/granary.html

This poem is about my memory,

of the jarring sensation

seeing a photograph circa 1994,

of one of the all-time

great pictures, capturing evil,

before it rose up to full flowering

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm,

http://www.granarygallery.com/title.php?titleID=10005991

of Joseph Goebbels,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels,

in 1933 at the League of Nations

on display at The Granary Gallery

(http://www.granarygallery.com/),

on Martha’s Vineyard

taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995),

http://www.gallerym.com/collections/alfred-eisenstaedt/

a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.

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