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"A Love That Forgives, Birmingham" Print
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12 x 16 in ($95)
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Black Canvas
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White ($135)
About The Artwork
This image is proof that a camera can capture images we can't even see. I feel certain this is the best photo that I will ever take and I actually had very little to do with it. As a Southerner, I have always lived in a place of bizarre interpretations of the word "freedom." Black Americans were somehow put into the category of "separate, but equal." And unfortunately, the separate aspect was violently enforced by racial hatred. Personally, when I think about this, the first word that I associate with this idea is Birmingham. I was up early, way before sunrise, and could not go back to sleep. I decided to cruise the deserted streets alone, there were absolutely no other people around. I followed Google Maps to the 16th Street Baptist Church, the site of the KKK bombing in 1963 that killed four girls in the basement. I found myself overcome with emotion and had to sit down, tears filling my eyes and running down my face. I lost all concern with taking pictures and just wanted to get away. On my way to the car, I took this picture of the statue called "A Love That Forgives." One of the girls is depicted releasing doves to the heavens. I found out later that the title refers to the sermon the girls were to have heard that day they died. When I look at the photo I still get emotional seeing the symbolism found everywhere in it. The light from the park shiing down, the rays eveloping the girl, the doves heading up towards it. The texture makes it look like a painting, it would make a great stained glass wiindow. And the trees during this December have lost most of their leaves, but the green part again seems to reach for the light, green representing life. This picture is a constant reminder that if the people of this church, Birmingham and especially the famiies of these kids can choose to forgive, why can't I?
Details & Dimensions
Print:Giclee on Canvas
Size:12 W x 16 H x 1.25 D in
Size with Frame:13.75 W x 17.75 H x 1.25 D in
Frame:White
Canvas Wrap:Black Canvas
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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Handling:Ships in a box. Art prints are packaged and shipped by our printing partner.
Ships From:Printing facility in California.
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"At the end of life, we are left with these artworks as valuable memories and often they are passed onto the next generations. They take on a life past our own." Mark Imhoof Photography and Applied Arts Flagler Beach, Florida - Photographer for travel, street, GoPro action sports, event and portrait photography using Fujifilm X-T2, GoPro Hero 7 Black, Fujifilm XP -90, Motorola Moto e cameras. - Personal History and Legacy Interviewer - Surfboard Designer and Shaper I admire applied art that serves both an aesthetic as well as a practically useful purpose, which is why I am attracted to photography, creating surfboards by hand and interviewing people. The reason that I create in these three distinct ways is that each allows me a chance to give myself and others something emotional and uniquely useful, a blink in time that will never occur again in exactly the same way. At the end of life, we are left with these artworks as valuable memories and often they are passed onto the next generations. They take on a life past our own. A camera is a unique machine that allows a person to capture photographic moments, very special brief windows in time of a kind of enlightened perception. This little time/light machine forces the photographer to live in the very moment. This is rare for the human mind, a mind always either planning, plotting or thinking of past or future. Because taking pictures is capturing time, it can be as equally frustrating as well as rewarding. Those moments that I miss are upsetting to the point of an obsession to look at the world around me as photographs and attempt to catch as many of those unique moments as I can that are worth pushing the shutter. I am especially attracted to photographing colorful people, very old trees, and Americana. Three of my favorite artists are Mark Cohen for his daring street photography, Dennis Stock is a fantastic travel photographer and Eugene Richards for his documentary work. I am self taught and spend hours either watching video, listening to or reading from the experts. I have studied John Hedgecoe’s course “Complete Photography” and MIT Professor Bill Cohen’s course “Documentary Photography and Photojournalism."
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