Fallen Leaves
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Shalechet
“Shalechet”. A Hebrew girls name meaning fallen leaves and the title of this Holocaust art installation at the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Thousands of iron faces, roughly hewn and strewn across a dimly lit concrete corner of the museum.
Shalechet (Gefallenes Laub) by Menashe Kadishman at Jüdisches Museum.
Good art doesn’t need explaining does it?
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It’s an impressive piece and like you say, needs no explanation.
Powerful representation of a brutal history, well captured..
If it’s OK with you I will share this on my Facebook page.??
Very Meaningful.
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Of course, good of you to ask. Thanks Malcolm.
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Wow Ian, this is fantastic!
well taken ian ,great work, a reminder of terrible things that happened in those dark years
Our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters may appear in art exhibitions of rust and scatter, with 😮 expressions, but the pain and suffering cannot be represented in anyway as a piece of art. I do not agree with this example, though as sad as it may appear, it doesn’t do justice to those it represents. Anything else is attention seeking.
Poignant,Simple and Very Thought Provoking
Very well captured Ian – as several have said, a powerful and thought provoking shot.
Powerful Ian.
I like this, a cracker. 😎
Excellent
Very poignant and nicely composed.
Many thanks everyone.
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I think I understand your point Brett, is it acceptable to create art out of suffering? Or maybe it is in poor taste where to make the point is a secondary aim, the primary aim being to show off?
Personally I like it. Human tragedies such as these produce some of the best art. For example, the poetry from the trenches at Flanders and the Somme by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, those killing grounds were the perfect conditions for poetry expressing the tragedy of human frailty and waste on an industrial scale.
Equally Holocaust art starting with paintings by concentration camp survivors and moving on through Schindler’s List to exhibitions such as this are all part of the same continuum. I would argue that thanks to Spielberg we now have an awareness of the human suffering of Holocaust that wasn’t there before the early 1990s. Art and history are sometimes difficult to seperate.
As for this piece, it does, as Neal says, not need any explanation. It makes people think, it certainly made me think. I thought it represented in one presentation the suffering of millions in ways that numbers and data and personal accounts and movies and paintings can’t. But that’s just me. You’d have to see it in the flesh, feel the silence and appreciate the gloom.
A very powerful image very nicely done Ian.
The enormity of what this represents makes me feel very small…..
"attention seeking" …. really? I think not.
like it ian vey nicely done mate….
I find it provoking my imagination and pulling me up short.Hinting as it only can at the scale of human suffering.Your photo catches the awkward compelling nature of it.Good photography Ian.
Brilliant Art work…………………Simply breathtaking!!!
Janwillem
You have captured the mood very well Ian.
Very creative shot & meaningful desciption.
Nice capture! Very emotive!
A well composed and thought provoking shot, art in adversary.
This is wonderful Ian
Poignant, powerful and beautifully captured!
cool dof and the frame works well here.
I like it Ian .For me its perfectly valid for art to express pain and sufffering of people. Its never going to fully show the depth of the angst but if it makes others think about it then it has done its job.
Time clouds memories , the artwork keeps them alive.
a picture worth a thousand words 🙂
yes i had an amzing time in london, i might come again next year, i’ll let you know if so 🙂
a picture worth a thousand words 🙂
yes i had an amzing time in london, i might come again next year, i’ll let you know if so 🙂
Great image Ian, and I really appreciate your extended interpretation of it.
Beautiful
Very interesting.
Not too sure if I need to praise the photo or the art installation. Photo – great perspective and DOF; Installation – very simple yet poignant
Many thanks again everyone, much appreciated.
Cracking shot, a powerful image.
We are defined by comedy and tragedy-Shakespeare wrote little else! Fantastic photo.
me again !
Powerful and poignant installation.
Good job on the focusing in this shot, the blur intensify the effect of countless number of iron faces… The faces themselves make me think of the scene from Pink Floyd’s "The Wall", with "faceless" people transported in a train.
cool