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
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995), http://artquarterly.com/artist.cfm?ID=16, a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm. This poem refers to one of the all-time great pictures, capturing evil, before it rose up to full flowering http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm, Joseph Goebbels, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
(Raymond A. Foss)
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