*Never Again!* Photo

Photographer’s Note

New England Holocaust Memorial

- inside one of the glass towers -

The Holocaust Memorial design features six luminous
glass towers, each reaching fifty-four feet high, and
each lit internally from top to bottom. Six million
numbers are etched in the glass. These numbers
represent the six million Jews murdered in the
Holocaust and are suggestive of the infamous tattoos
the Nazis inflicted on many of the victims.

Visitors walk a black granite path through the
Memorial, passing under the towers. At the base of each
tower, a stainless steel grate covers a six-foot deep
chamber. On the wall of each chamber is inscribed one
of the names of the six primary Nazi death camps:
Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and
Auschwitz-Birkenau. At the bottom of the pits,
smoldering coals illuminate the names of the camps.

The New England Holocaust Memorial is located in Carmen
Park, Congress Street near Faneuil Hall, on Boston's
historic Freedom Trail.

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Kameramodell Canon EOS 40D
Aufnahmedatum/-zeit 25.09.2008 16:56:08
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JLG, marine-coeur, jean11-3, kmr13777, Greg1949 has marked this note useful

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JLG (2086) 2008-10-30 3:26

hello Thorsten
une belle composition geometrique
le choix du noir et blanc est ici judicieux
note tres instructive aussi
congratulation
jean louis

marine-coeur (572) 2008-10-30 3:43

Convergent POV, but in fact paralleled representation of beautiful design,
NEVER ENDING excellent graphic PIC!!! Bravo Thorsten.

jean11-3 (2799) 2008-10-30 7:51

Hello Thorsten, an excellent PoV; the tree/plant gives us our bearings, so that we can realise that we are looking upwards into the tower.
I am not sure how much colour there is in this place, but your decision to use in b/w gives the shot more impact.
Interesting notes.
Tfs, regards Jean.

Greg1949 (8507) 2008-10-31 4:32

Thor, fine shot fine sentiment. Interestingly, sadly, I walked past this two weeks ago without knowing what I was walking past. I was showing my Israeli friends around Boston. Thanks for opening my eyes, next trip I won't pass this up.

Greg

Nana-S (602) 2008-10-31 16:48

great view!

kmr13777 (23) 2008-11-06 23:16

Hi Thorsten,
This is an excellent composition. Can't say very much about it except for that it's an amazingly well captured effect. Chossing to publish this in greyscale was an excellent idea too.

Cheers!!

TFS

Kirti

Thank you for your encouraging note on my picture :)

ErikSven (270) 2008-11-07 12:39

Hello Thorsten,
This photo is overwhelming for two reasons:
1) the symbolic one, explained in your note and expressed by your title;
2) the photographical one, your upward point of view conveying a kind of frightening endlessness.
Both aspects perfectly converge in your picture. 6.000.000 victims. A number that sounds both frightening and endless.
Black and white is a good choice for this mood: it makes the silence emanating from your minimalistic composition almost palpable.
One (small) remark: if you had cropped a bit the right side, symmetry would have been perfect here.
TFS & kind regards,
Erik

Photo Information

Copyright: Thorsten Buchen (thor68) (5537)
Genre: Places
Medium: Black & White
Date Taken: 2008-09-25
Categories: Artwork
Camera: Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF-S 17-85 mm f/4-5.6 IS USM, SanDisk Ext. III 4GB, Hoya 67mm UV
Exposure: f/13.0, 1/320 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-10-30 3:11
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