The Holocaust Memorial in Boston, MA

Do you think that the darks are too dark? Especially in the upper left corner? This image is looking straight up through the pillars of the memorial. I will also upload some more standard shots of the place so that you can get an idea of what it's like.

A wider view...

Walking up to the memorial

Another view...

Please see the attached images in the discussion thread for this

photo. Any comments or ratings are appreciated!

Lou Ann, these are nice shots of complex architecture. The image leading off the series is excellent, kinda abstract, but cool with the sky through the glass and the companion columns adjacent. A neat perspective. The second photo might be a touch dark on the left-side, but not fatally. All in all, nice job! Best regards, Chris

The image you've posted is really beautiful! What a wonderful perspective of this monument. The lines and glass are really great, especially since two of the corners match up with the corners of your image. You've found great beauty in a memorial about such a horrific time. Nice job.

 

Leslie

I googled this site since I had not seen it before and wanted to know more about its design. This is what I found...

 

 

-The design utilizes uniquely powerful symbols of the Holocaust. The Memorial features six luminous glass towers, each 54 feet high. The towers are lit internally to gleam at night. They are set on a black granite path, each one over a dark chamber which carries the name of one of the principal Nazi death camps. Smoke rises from charred embers at the bottom of these chambers. Six million numbers are etched in glass in an orderly pattern, suggesting the infamous tattooed numbers and ghostly ledgers of the Nazi bureaucracy. Evocative and rich in metaphor, the six towers recall the six main death camps, the six million Jews who died, or a menorah of memorial candles. -

 

 

"Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean - what they symbolize - what they evoke. They evoke an era of incommensurate darkness, an era in history when civilization lost its humanity and humanity its soul . . ."

 

"We must look at these towers of memory and say to ourselves, No one should ever deprive a human being of his or her right to dignity. No one should ever deprive anyone of his or her right to be a sovereign human being. No one should ever speak again about racial superiority... We cannot give evil another chance."

 

- Elie Wiesel

 

 

 

Thank you, Leslie, for posting that quote. I didn't mention the numbers ... but you can almost see that something is etched in the glass. There are a LOT of numbers. And the smoke-stack feel to the towers is eerie. It is a good reminder.

Amazing monument, I love that you can capture each image so beautifly, even with the knowledge of what they represent. Great work, and thank you for sharing this series:^)

Hi Lou Ann, You did a great job on these photos. I love this one. I think I was in another town when you were in Boston..hahaha...

 

BTW_ Great new bio photo!

Lou Ann, great point of your camera, the blue sky is a great addition symbolizing that life go's on .I'm very thankfull to you for that work as I was in Washington DC Holocauste museum, but not in Boston, it is very impressive and very good addition, the inside photos, Thanks to Leslie as well for the added information. I have my folder of Holocaust Museums as it is part of my family history.

Allow me and I hope you don't mind if I will add my folder of " No More" to your work, so people will see something also of "Yad Vashem"( literaly "a hand and a name" in Hebrew means memory of names.) Holocaust museum in Jerusalem , Washington, and Prague.

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=624876

 

(Lou Ann, it is your work, if you want I will delet the address)

 

Good sensitive work!

Pnina - of course it's okay for you to include that link! Here it is as a hotlink. I think that it's very important work!! In fact, if you want to copy this photo and load it in that folder, just post a link back to this image and my name, and I'd be honored to have this image directly IN that folder. It's important ... first of all because it's in your family's history ... secondly because it's part of all of our histories in some way or another ... thirdly because it can NEVER happen again!

Great work, Lou Ann....I love this very much!

Lou Ann, I think the darks are about right for a subject that is going to be dark anyway. This is a fine shot of this memorial and captures a feeling of dark, light, hard lines against the gentler forms outside. I like it a lot.

Lou Ann, I agree with Colin, well done.

Lou Ann, thank you so much.

I have added your work to my folder to the image of the Memorial Hall, which I think is the key image of them all.

here

 

Read my ( first) comment as the introduction

 

Hi Lou Ann,

Very strong photo as usual. Did you try cropping the top portion of the photo? I cropped it with paper on the screen and liked it even more with the metal frame as the top portion of the photo. Just my personal taste probably.

 

John

Lou Ann, I don't think it is dark( I have only now discovered your question) I have a new monitor very well calibrated, and it looks good! I have made a mistake in writing about your work on my folder and corrected it, so look now.It is a very interesting monument, thanks again

This is one of your very best, in my opinion, Lou Ann. I like it that you are shooting straight up in this one. (Your new biopic is great, too--very elegant.)

 

--Lannie

I love this one very much Lou Ann... and as said before also your new bio, very elegant indeed, I cannot say that about mine ;D

 

Els

Interesting image in blue tones. I like the graphic composition of squares and triangles.

Very good indeed. Luv the colours and the shapes as well.

Lou Ann, great composition, love the contrast and color!

really well done, you have a sharp eye