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« on: July 05, 2007, 03:18:24 PM » |
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I noticed this listing for Margaret Tetubo Ngwe's loan yesterday and fell totally in love with this photo. Just look at those cabbages! And the corn! And the family in the field, with the kids crouching under the corn and the babe in arms! The photo itself is surely over-exposed, but it looks like a painting to me, hazy and soft and dreamy. I would love to be a painter able to recreate this on a canvas. Any examples of hauntingly beautiful photos you've come across?  --Diane. |
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Henry
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« Reply To This #1 on: July 05, 2007, 03:37:12 PM » |
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love it as well, would make a great postcard for KVIA!
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Kay
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« Reply To This #2 on: July 05, 2007, 03:55:01 PM » |
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« Last Edit: July 05, 2007, 06:41:13 PM by Kay »
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Joe
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« Reply To This #3 on: July 05, 2007, 05:22:41 PM » |
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Kay, to post an image, just hit this button:  on the menu bar above where you're writing your post and then paste the link to the picture in the middle of the two img code brackets that appear. Alternatively you can also save the image to your computer and then attach it to your post by clicking Additional Options. There's a little box there where you can browse for a picture on your system and attach it.  |
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Ed Chandler
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« Reply To This #4 on: July 05, 2007, 06:00:38 PM » |
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Diane,
All I could think of when I saw your posted picture was hundreds of years of slavery in the south! Transplant those cabbage plants with cotton plants and BINGO! Complete families working the fields from sun up to sun down..........
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DianeCharlie
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« Reply To This #5 on: July 05, 2007, 06:23:43 PM » |
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Really? Gee, I saw a family raising beautiful crops for their own progress and success. Interesting that we'd see it so differently.
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Kay
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« Reply To This #6 on: July 05, 2007, 06:32:21 PM » |
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Kay, to post an image, just hit this button: on the menu bar above where you're writing your post and then paste the link to the picture in the middle of the two img code brackets that appear. Alternatively you can also save the image to your computer and then attach it to your post by clicking Additional Options. There's a little box there where you can browse for a picture on your system and attach it. Thanks, Joe! At least I've got the picture up, now!  |
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« Last Edit: July 05, 2007, 06:33:13 PM by Kay »
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Henry
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« Reply To This #7 on: July 05, 2007, 06:35:26 PM » |
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i saw both, mostly the beauty in the picture. What removes the slavery impression from my mind is "choice". I believe while it might not be their first choice, they love the land, have land (always a good feeling) and farm it by choice. My white grandfather wanted to die while working his peanut farm in north carolina. Something about farmers and fields! Most love it.
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« Reply To This #8 on: July 05, 2007, 06:42:28 PM » |
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Diane,
All I could think of when I saw your posted picture was hundreds of years of slavery in the south! Transplant those cabbage plants with cotton plants and BINGO! Complete families working the fields from sun up to sun down..........
It is strange how we see the world through our own colored glasses, based on our own culture and experiences.  One of the side benefits of Kiva is to break us out of our own cultural bias and come closer to see the world as it is. |
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Ed Chandler
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« Reply To This #9 on: July 05, 2007, 08:17:55 PM » |
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I don't really believe my culture had anything to do with what that picture represented. I'm a native american Mohawk Metís elder, with ancestral roots in Canada! I frequently deal in antiques, as a dealer, and know that pictures of slaves working the fields in the south, bring premium's to collectors! As does all Black Americana! I personally believe that slavery was disgusting and a huge disgrace to humanity. Turn the clock ahead a hundred and fifty years, and now we see the hardships our worldly neighbors having to toil freely in the fields to survive in an environment which isn't always kind. Yes, this photo has varied emotions to those who view it. I'm reminded that we're so fortunate to be free and in a situation to be Kiva donors to our brethren in the third world.
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