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Jean de Thévenot (1633-1667) was a linguist, natural scientist, botanist, and traveler who wrote extensively about his journeys to the eastern Mediterranean and Turkey. He is also the man we can thank for introducing coffee to Parisian society in 1657 and for instructing the French in its use. We do not know why Philippe de Champaigne, one of the greatest French painters of the 17th century, painted his portrait but it is obvious he took pleasure in rendering the lavish fabrics, Turkish-inspired domed architecture, and almost translucent complexion of this striking and exotic figure.
Philippe de Champaigne (French, 1602-74), painted around 1660-63, oil on canvas.
The Huntington Museum (2010.2)
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I think one of the main reasons I was so enchanted by the Generation Girl line as a kid, was the fact that the dolls came with SO much!!! At least, it seemed that way to my younger self. The second looks weren't quite as fabulous as the dolls' main ones, showcased in the other photograph. My favorites were Chelsie and Nichelle's alternate outfits. Nichelle's was so fancy and the white/silver combo was stunning on her dark complexion. I have to say that this mini dress looks way better on my adult purchased Nichelle, with the larger afro variation. Her hair is such a statement on its own. Plus, it masked how shabby this dress actually is for the photo. This outfit was my childhood one--I have yet to find another. Let's just say it is literally falling apart! Chelsie's spare ensemble was practical--denim capris and a tank top. These pieces were some of my most used during play, especially since Chelsie and Tori both shared the same slimmer body mold. She didn't come with any sort of alternate footwear, but these combat boots matched well with both her getups. The other outfits were of equal caliber in my opinion. Ana came with a swimsuit, which was a tad gaudy, but very useful. Tori's extra dress was super stylish, but also ridiculously short. So it was VERY revealing for casual play. I often put her jeans beneath it while Colleen and I were playing with our dolls, so her butt didn't show. Barbie's theater ensemble was so iconic to me, that it didn't matter that the skirt was completely sheer. Even though it isn't all that practical, some of my spare pieces have come in handy over the years (my Solo in the Spotlight repro looks fabulous in it). The only doll whose alternate attire was a complete let down was Lara's. Seriously, a paint smock?!!! That's all you could think of Mattel?!!! I would say that Lara came with more plastic accessories, and that's why she got ripped off in the outfit department. But I really don't feel that she came with any more than the others. Chelsie came with a large microphone and guitar. Nichelle came with makeup and a directors chair. Tori and Ana had oodles of sporty gear, and Barbie had a plethora of film equipment. But I was consoled by the fact that Lara's main outfit was my favorite, as were her plastic accessories. I always made my "main" doll in a game be artistic. Plus, her knit purse, grey pants, sweater, and tank were all so versatile that I got loads of use out of them!
I can walk the runway with the best of them. Just look at this svelte figure, and this flawless complexion. Why I'm so bright eyed and bushy tailed I put all the others to shame.
I know because every time I'm here there's paparazzi taking my picture! I can here the click of the camera right now!
A series of images from a walk up to Angle Tarn in the English Lake District National Park on a late winter’s day in 2023 after a surprise, late snowfall.
The Dude seeks to improve his complexion.
Capturada en el castillo de Piñar: Granada
Se trata de un bóvido de menor tamaño que un ciervo y de complexión fuerte y robusta. El macho tiene una cornamienta grande, sin ramificar, que se desvía ligeramente hacia atrás. En la hembra es pequeña y delgada.
Su pelaje, de color pardo grisáceo por el dorso y blanco por el vientre, varía a lo largo del año.
El hocico es algo más corto que en la cabra doméstica. Su color de pelo varía desde el gris parduzco al pardo claro.
La presencia de barba en los machos, su mayor corpulencia y la gran extensión de manchas negras, les diferencia de las hembras.
Los machos miden, entre cabeza y cuerpo, 1,25 m y pesan de 50 a 58 kg. Las hembras miden 1 m y pesan de 30 a 36 kg.
La cabra montés habita en bosques y matorrales de alta y media montaña.
Sus poblaciones se distribuyen en Sierra de Gredos (Ávila), Puertos de Tortosa-Beceite (Cataluña), sierra madrileña y sierras del sur y este (Sierra Nevada, sierras malagueñas, Cazorla, Segura, etc.).
Es una especie polígama. La época de celo es entre noviembre y enero. Es entonces cuando se reúnen machos y hembras. Los machos se comportan agresivamente entre sí y luchan por las hembras. Se alzan sobre las patas traseras, entrechocando las cuernas al caer. El vencedor se hace con un pequeño harén que abandona después de las cópulas.
La gestación dura unos 5 meses, y la época de parto es entre abril y julio. Tienen entre una y dos crías, a las que amamanta hasta los seis meses de edad. Posteriormente, si la cría es un macho, abandona a la madre y se une a los otros machos.
Es una especie de hábitos diurnos en invierno, y se va haciendo nocturna en el verano. Tímida y tranquila, tiene un gran olfato y oído. Está dotada para andar entre rocas y saltar por paredes casi verticales o incluso hielo.
Muy gregario, forma grupos numerosos bien de hembras y crías o bien de machos. Aunque no migra, realiza largos viajes erráticos durante el invierno.
Entre los enemigos destacan los perros asilvestrados y los lobos, aunque éstos últimos actualmente ocupan áreas bastante alejadas de los territorios de las cabras montesas.
Devora indiscriminadamente cualquier materia vegetal, como hierbas, líquenes, cortezas, brotes y frutos. Con frecuencia lamen la sal que los pastores suministran al ganado.
Not a day for having parties and rejoice, but for remembering and reflecting.
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Luanes World
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
(W. Shakespeare - sonnet 18)
Did some minor mesh adjustments to the face as well as some new hair with diff eye colors/textures. Thanks to EK suggesting to use Fair Skin Complexion's wet specular for the face. Mixed it with the goosebump specular as well as added special normalmaps for my breton. Pretty happy with the new look. :)
What's amazing to me here is that there is no real "skin retouch " here .......just a little contrast reduction , what an amazing complexion ....
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The color mix of her ginger hair and complexion and the necklace had me ask for a picture.
Although I keep having the nagging feeling the portrait would've been better out of direct sunlight.
Intense, magnetic, and deeply feminine.
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Gad, two passes in one day to shoot the very tree with the terrible sense of location, location, location. This is the third of my rock-splitting ponderosa shots. The day is changing complexion and that warrants another shot. The sky is starting to look ominous. I am still avoiding that summons from The Donald, Inc. with this series. But then, The Don, gropester in charge, gives such wonderful gifts that keep on grifting. Ah, there is so little reality left for reality media, it is almost unreal! What a concept, pay only lawyers to bash labor and small contractors; rip suckers for fake university educations; buy pageants for new groping territory! Sounds like the perfect scams especially for the premier narcissist. What? Once groped, permanently quiet, really? Was he a scholar of the Bill Cosby school but uses different drugs? I think it is a bad thought to challenge Hillary with drug tests. We knew that he would never debate Bernie; chickens are always uncomfortable around someone named Sanders. Think it through before opening the pie hole, more bad advice probably. Whoosh, I am starting to feel really sorry for the damage done to his own family. It will be interesting how this will play out as he continually emboldens his gropees who come out of what he thought was permanent obscurity. I'm waiting for the final and ultimate explosion. Should be bonkers!
Rentless onward as stated by the late great Walt Kelly. Everyone wants to be in pictures! Here is another shot that I refuse to pump for effect and probably don't need to anyway. Here we are again on the Peak to Peak Highway bypass above Peaceful Valley and Cave Creek. We usually pause to snap the dwarf, stunted ponderosa pine atop the rock. I've shot it before, myself. The sky cooperated with some outrageous skies to aid in defining the tree that could eventually split the rock, Time and Pressure. Time and pressure! And that, of course, will be it's own destruction if it hasn't sunk roots to actual ground.
eDDie and I headed back north on Peak to Peak Scenic highway. We retraced our path back north and ended up at Estes for a roll down the canyon. We always hope for good skies when foraging but this is a bit much. They say the bear, like clouds, came over the mountain to see what he could see. There are laws against feeding wildlife up here and I sincerely hope the wildlife concurs.
eDDie usually stops at his rock of aegis on our way past and this stop gave us wonderful skies if a complex light range. I shot for the bright sky. We tightened our hiking boots and had already packed mass quantities of captures on our cards. Ahh, why not another foray?
Maiko (apprentice geisha) Tondaya Yachiyo of Osaka.
“All the girls of the [Tondaya] geisha house are not only beautiful in their figure and complexion, but also very graceful in their action and behaviour.”
From “The Story of the Geisha Girl” by Taizo Fujimoto, first published in 1917.
Ready to walk outside, loading up with facial gear. ISO 6400 on an old Fuji X-T1. I do think this color of mask goes quite well with my lovely complexion and childlike innocence. :)
I love running my fingers up and down my legs feeling the tactile feeling of my pantyhose. These are Wolford Satin Touch 20s in Caramel color which seems to fit my ski complexion the best.
Near the 'Grave of the Yellow Men' at Kilbaha, Co Clare, Ireland - July 2020.
[Note: In the 1700s a ship foundered in this bay and 9 sailors from it were drowned. Because of their complexion they were known as the yellow men. It is likely they came from the Iberian peninsula (Spain or Portugal) rather than anywhere in the Far East.]
Noon 45W Pinhole Camera. Fomapan 100 4x5 inch film.
Cecile was selling colorful handbags at the marketplace. As I passed by I saw her in her lovely red hat, which contrasted so beautiful against her dark hair and fair complexion. As soon as I picked up my camera she saw me and posed so naturally like she had been modelling all her life. I had to shoot at once. A few months later I saw her in another marketplace and other town. This time I had a longer chat with her and showed her the photo from my Iphone. She was so excited and asked for the photo. Of course we changed email addresses and she got her photo as I promised.
This was a brief encounter but a fine example of how we can meet total strangers and communicate with the help of a camera. This is why I love this project so much. I have an excuse (to take a photo) to talk to people and can learn much about their lives. It brings the world nearer and it is not so frightening any more.
My recipe for world peace is therefor: TALK TO EACH OTHER!
This picture is #52 in my 100 strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is Christianna Milogianaki who runs Christiannas Restautant in Chania, the second city of Crete. The cooking is done by her mother and Christianna does the serving and everything else. The food is fabulous - real Greek food at its very best, and great value to boot.. Don't take my word for it - just look at the reviews on TripAdvisor here www.tripadvisor.ie/ShowUserReviews-g189415-d3684987-r1643...
Christianna's is locarted along the sea front but east of the main port area, about 5 minutes walk along the front and at the 'far' end of the row of reataurants located there.
Christiana has perfect English so there are no communication issues as she can explain everything about their Greek cousine. My suggestion is to go with her suggestions!
The other thing is that you never know who you might meet there - I met a professional photographer who told me he takes photographs of pretty ladies - producing a Pirelli Calendar being one of the things on his CV!
Even though Barbie has had many different looks over her time, many see the image of Barbie indelibly linked to that late 70’s American beauty ideal of cascading blonde hair, blue eyes, a snub nose and a wide toothy grin (which pretty much appeared on all the TV shows and fashion magazine covers of the day, in the form of Cheryl Ladd, Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, Nancy Donahue, Kelly Emberg and Patti Hansen) … and of course, she had that ‘peaches and cream’ (Caucasian!) complexion. But fashion wasn’t just showing the one blonde/blue-eyed ideal back then. Some of my favourite models from that era were non-Caucasian, like Iman, Dalma, Pat Cleveland, Beverly Johnson, Anna Bayle, Peggy Dillard, Marie Helvin, Katoucha and a host of others. When the ‘Dolls Of The World’ collection was released around that time, Barbie finally started appearing in different ethnicities, as with ‘Oriental’ Barbie in 1980… the first doll to have a dedicated Asian facial sculpt that was used for many dolls afterward. I find this gal is particularly striking, especially with that beautifully soft, hazy, early 80’s makeup! (Get her for that alone!!!) I also love the illustration of her on the side of the box that you can see here. (NRFB ones are still very reasonably priced, so she’s great when your funds are low and you are itching to get something!) Her outfit is also quite beautiful and also very much of the fashion of the time, which thanks to YSL et al, was going through a very ‘Chinoiserie’ moment back then. (My mother had a brocade jacket very much like hers back in 1980!)The social media peanut gallery would cry ‘Cultural Appropriation!’ in a fit of rage nowadays, but we must remember it was a different time back then. I substituted the clear ‘diamond’ jewellery she originally wore with a spare set of Fashion Photo Barbie’s ‘ruby’ and gold jewellery I had as I think it went better with her outfit.
Another doll that appeared at that time was the first ‘Black’ Barbie…. Of course, Barbie had many African American friends before then (and even a ‘relative’ in now highly sought after ‘Black Francie’ from 1967/68,) but this was the first time Barbie herself represented African American beauty. Her hair is very easy to style, (I flicked it back to get those very 70’s ‘wings’ just by brushing the hair around my finger… the hair pick/comb she comes with also works very well to fluff up that ‘do!) And you can change her earrings from that red sculpted stud to the long spiral drops, or to the hoops you see here. I love her outfit, too… very ‘Disco’! Even though she uses the Caucasian Steffie sculpt, (as some other AA dolls did before her, like the various Caras and Christies) her makeup is also very softly and warmly coloured and quite beautiful,(much softer than in the repros I have seen) … and she has the double ‘reflector’ dots in her eyes which reminds me of the old Avedon-lensed American Vogue covers from back then. Even though I love these gals’ original outfits, I can’t wait to dress them up in some of the fashions of that time, as I think they will look smashing in practically everything! (And yes… I am already on the hunt! :P )
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was number one on explore!!
lila is a kindergarten beauty....check out her gorgeous eyes in the large view!!
for everyone who wonders or asks, lila is not wearing makeup - those thick eyelashes and peachy complexion are au naturel! she is wearing marykate and ashley lipgloss on her naturally rosy lips. she is a kindergartener in every sense of the word....she just happens to be beautiful!!
....is a pink carnation,
....laying in the sun,
....holding an umbrella made from paper doily, to protect her light complexion...
...she's strong and tender,
...she's determined and relaxed,
...her inner beauty shines all over,
...she's modest and perceptive,
...she's expressive and quiet,
...she's firm and forgiving....
To all lovely ladies....have the nicest of days! :)
There are two large statues of the creatures that go by the name of Thotsakhirithon. One is emerald green and the other one a creamy yellow. The yaksha or the guardian of the Hindu and Buddhist lore is called a yak in Thai and is to be found in fine figurative proportions compared to say Cambodia and Java where they have a squatter, bulkier and in a kneeling down position.
The yakshas are very ornately covered with colored stones and paintwork and stand tall and imposing in the temple complex.
It was difficult to shoot straight on because of too many tourists. This shot is a part of a panorama that I had to resort to. Well the panorama is still not done. One of these days I will put it up.
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so different...yet the same. Both models are from Africa. As children, one was forced out of that continent for her really really light complexion. The other ridiculed in North America for her dark skin.
sb800 camera left reflected in an umbrella, gridded sb600 camera right behind models both fired by CLS
the Apricot Kernels Nonsense
In November, 1921, a great English physician, Sir Robert McCarrison (after whom the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health is named), visited the USA at the invitation of the University of Pittsburgh, to deliver the annual sixth Mellon Lecture before the Society for Biological Research.
The subject of his paper was “Faulty Food in Relation to Gastro-Intestinal Disorders,” and its salient points centered on the marvelous health and robustness of the Hunzas, who dwell on the northwestern border of what was then British India (now Pakistan).
The sturdy, mountaineer Hunzas are a light-complexioned race of people, much fairer of skin than the natives of the northern plains of India. They claim descent from three soldiers of Alexander the Great who lost their way in one of the precipitous gorges of the Himalayas. They always refer to themselves as Hunzukuts and to their land as Hunza, but ignorant modern writers insist on calling the people Hunzas.
Most of the people of Hunza are Ismaili Muslims, followers of His Highness the Aga Khan. The local language is Brushuski. Urdu and English are also understood by most of people.
The Hunza valley is one of huge glaciers and towering mountains, below which are ice-fields, boulder-strewn torrents and frozen streams.
The lower levels are transformed into verdant gardens in summertime. Narrow roads cling to the crumbling sides of forbidding precipices, which present sheer drops of thousands of feet, with many spots subject to dangerously recurrent bombardments of rock fragments from overhanging masses.
The Hunzas live on a seven-mile line at an elevation of five or six hundred feet from the bottom of a deep cleft between two towering mountain ranges. Some of the glaciers in this section of the world are among the largest known outside the Arctic region. The average height of the mountains is 20,000 feet, with some peaks, such as Rakaposhi, which dominates the whole region, soaring as high as 25,000—a spectacle of breath-taking beauty, too steep to hold snow and usually scarfed by clouds.
Because of the scarcity of food, supplies and transport, the region is closed to the general public and special permission is required to enter it. Travellers to the region have thus been few but those who have seen the wonder of Hunza have returned with glowing tales of the charm and buoyant health of this people.
Snow is a constant factor; long winters keep the entire population more or less housebound for several months at a time. Yet in summer the mercury may climb to 95 degrees in the shade.
For months in the winter the landscape is all one drab, monotonous, monochromatic stretch of grey houses, apricot trees, fields and walls, all are of a uniformly dingy and depressing gray, with lifeless, low-hanging clouds.
Then in life miraculously returns and color is reborn in the rich greens and yellows of the crops and trees. Leading the explosion of awakening, the apricot blossoms in spring stud the landscape with a riot of pastel-tinted pink and white, in vast profusion.
However, it’s not all about the landscape and crops; Sir Robert McCarrison and other travelers who have visited the Hunza-land, have all been particularly impressed by its atmosphere of peace and by the splendid health and amiability of its people.
Cancer researchSo vibrant was the health of those Hunzas with whom McCarrison came into contact that he reported never having seen a case of asthenic dyspepsia, or gastric or duodenal ulcer, of appendicitis, mucous colitis or cancer. Cases of over-sensitivity of the abdomen to nerve impressions, fatigue, anxiety or cold were completely unknown.
The prime physiological purpose of the abdomen, as related to the sensation of hunger, constituted their only consciousness of this part of their anatomy.
McCarrison concluded this part of his lecture by stating, “Indeed, their buoyant abdominal health has, since my return to the West, provided a remarkable contrast with the dyspeptic and colonic lamentations of our highly civilized communities.”
In fact the Hunzas are not perfect: there is one tiny aspect of ill-health. They seem to suffer from eye disorders that are due to the lack of stoves and chimneys. A fire is made in the middle of the floor and the smoke escapes from a small hole in the roof. The gathering smudge in the air is a constant irritant to their eyes.
McCarrison was otherwise amazed at the health and immunity record of the Hunzas, who, though surrounded on all sides by peoples afflicted with all kinds of degenerative and pestilential diseases, still did not contract any of them.
Travelers who have lived and worked with the Hunzas are unanimous in praising their general charm, intelligence, and physical stamina.But the Hunzas were not entirely a benign or benevolent people, by our standards. There is a paradox here.
In his Mellon Lecture McCarrison told us, “They (the Hunzas) are unusually fertile and long-lived, and endowed with nervous systems of notable stability.
Their longevity and fertility were, in the case of one of them, matters of such concern to the ruling chief that he took me to task for what he considered to be my ridiculous eagerness to prolong the lives of the ancients of his people, among whom were many of my patients.
The operation for senile cataract appeared to him a waste of my economic opportunities, and he tentatively suggested instead the introduction of some form of lethal chamber, designed to remove from his realms those who by reason of their age and infirmity were no longer of use to the community.”
But there is no questioning the physical fitness and stamina of this race of men. One writer, R. C. F. Schomberg, commented, “It is quite the usual thing for a Hunza man to walk sixty miles at one stretch, up and down the face of precipices to do his business and return direct.” This author passed through the Hunza country many times. He describes how his Hunza servant went after a stolen horse “and kept up the pursuit in drenching rain over mountains for nearly two days with bare feet.”
Schomberg also tells of seeing a Hunza in mid-winter make two holes in an ice pond, repeatedly dive into one and come out at the other, with as much unconcern as a polar bear.
Sir Aurel Stein records a trip of 200 miles made on foot by a Hunza messenger, a journey that imposed the obstacle of crossing a mountain as high as Mont Blanc. The trip was accomplished in seven days and the messenger returned fresh looking and untired, as if it had been a common, everyday occurrence. The word “tired” does not seem to exist in their lexicon.
In the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts for January 2, 1925, Sir Robert McCarrison wrote: “The powers of endurance of these people are extraordinary; to see a man of this race throw off his scanty garments, revealing a figure which would delight the eye of a Rodin, and plunge into a glacier-fed river in the middle of the winter, as easily as most of us would take a tepid bath, is to realize that perfection of physique and great physical endurance are attainable on the simplest of foods, provided these be of the right kind.”
Now we are getting down to the real message.
McCarrison postulated four main reasons in explanation of their fabulous health. I think it both interesting and advisable to give them all in his own words. He said:
1) “Infants are reared as Nature intended them to be reared–at the breast. If this source of nourishment fails, they die; and at least they are spared the future gastrointestinal miseries, which so often have their origin in the first bottle.”
McCarrison is absolutely in tune with (or rather modern holistic and food experts like me are in tune with HIM!), in saying that if anything other than Mother’s colostrum is put in the infant’s mouth at birth, disastrous food intolerances follow, as night follows day.
2) “The people live on the unsophisticated foods of Nature: milk, eggs, grains, fruits and vegetables. I don’t suppose that one in every thousand of them has ever seen a tinned salmon, a chocolate or a patent infant food, nor that as much sugar is imported into their country in a year as is used in a moderately sized hotel of this city in a single day.”
I’m surprised at the dairy but raw milk fans will make a lot of this. But the number one here is, without question, NO SUGAR and not the apricots!
No manufactured food is also crucial. Never never eat anything that doesn’t look the way Nature created it (and never never eat anything that Monsanto and similar biotech companies have had their dirty hands on).
3) “Their religion (Islam) prohibits alcohol, and although they do not always lead in this respect a strictly religious life, nevertheless they are eminently a tee totalling race.”
(Colonel Lorimer says that the Hunzas occasionally drink a little wine at festivals. Alcohol is not forbidden to Ismalai Mohammedans, but in Hunza the distilling of alcohol has been prohibited in recent years, since McCarrison’s time). So a little quiet wine drinking seems to be no big hazard, if everything else is in place.
4) “Their manner of life requires the vigorous exercise of their bodies.”
No surprise here; we know that staying active is an essential part of health and definitely does protect from cancer.ers take note.
Piero's war
You sleep buried in a wheat field
it's not the rose, it's not the tulip
watching on you from the shadow of ditches
but it's a thousand red poppies (...)
Faber
La guerra di Piero - Fabrizio De André
La guerra di Piero
Dormi sepolto in un campo di grano
Non è la rosa, non è il tulipano
Che ti fan veglia dall'ombra dei fossi
Ma sono mille papaveri rossi (...)
Faber
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“A story exists only if someone tells it.”
TITIAN TERZANI
... this aphorism to introduce this photographic story, which begins in Germany close to the Second World War, to end tragically in Sicily: the main protagonist of this "photographic" story is of German origin, his name is Carl Ludwig Hermann Long (known as Luz Long), but this story could not exist without another great protagonist, American, his name is Jesse Owens. Let's start in order, Luz Long is a brilliant law student at the University of Leipzig, he represents the incarnation of the Aryan man, he is tall, blond, has an athletic physique, his great passion is the long jump, he is a natural talent, this allows him to enter in a short time among the best long jumpers of the time (so much so that he won third place at the 1934 European Championships); Long will be one of the favorites in the long jump at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, whose historical context is that of Nazi Germany which would soon unleash the Second World War, including the racial hatred that resulted in the extermination camps with the Holocaust. Luz Long is remembered both for his great sportsmanship gesture towards his direct American opponent Jesse Owens, who, thanks to Long's unexpected help, will win the long jump competition, thus winning the gold medal (one of the four gold medals he won), while Long finished second by winning the silver medal, but Long is also remembered for his sincere friendship with Jesse, free from hatred and racial prejudice. The Berlin Olympics represent an extraordinary propaganda to the ideals of the Third Reich, it is a very important historical moment to show the superiority of the Aryan race to the whole world; the sports facilities were built with the utmost care by the architect of the Nazi regime Albert Speer (with architectural references from Ancient Greece), the sporting event was about to turn into an ideological tool of the regime, the documentary film " Olympia" of 1938 was also shot for this purpose directed by Leni Riefenstahl (author of films and documentaries that exalted the Nazi regime), where many innovative cinematographic techniques were used for the time, with unusual and original shots, such as shots from below, extreme close-ups, to the platforms in the Olympic stadium to photograph the crowd. Hitler wanted to demonstrate the supremacy of the Aryan race with the Olympics, the Aryan athlete had to correspond to a statuesque stereotyped figure, tall, blond, athletic, fair complexion, blue eyes, Luz Long was the ideal incarnation of him. Forty-nine countries participated in the Olympics, a number never reached before; German-Jewish athletes were expelled from all sports; even African Americans were discriminated against in their country, but they were allowed to compete, even if in smaller numbers, one of them was called James Cleveland Owens, but everyone knew him as Jesse (due to an error of interpretation by the his professor); it was his athletic abilities that allowed him to achieve several records, an important moment was the meeting with Larry Snyder, a good coach, and so thanks to his victories he had the opportunity to compete in the Berlin Olympics: he will be the protagonist of the Olympic Games, a 23-year-old boy originally from Alabama, who in a few days will win 4 gold medals, the 100m race, the 200m race, the 4x100m relay race and the long jump race in which there will be the story that will be worth all the gold medals in the world with Luz Long). Let's get to the point, on the morning of August 4, 1936 Luz qualifies for the long jump final, for Owens the qualification takes place in conjunction with the races of 200 mt. plans, Ownes is engaged in both races, the simultaneity of the two events, and a different regulation between the European and the US one entails him two null jumps, the first jump he thought was a test to test the terrain (as per the US regulation) , instead it was a valid jump for the competition, the second jump sees him very demoralized and makes the worst jump of his life. the elimination is now one step away, but Long interprets with great depth of mind the psychic state of prostration of his direct opponent, he sees him transformed into a face, dejected, Luz approaches him in a friendly way and suggests him to disconnect 20-30 cm before the serve line (and shows him the exact point by placing a handkerchief right next to the platform, at the height of the ideal take-off point, even if not all those who report the event in their chronicles remember the detail of the handkerchief), but also exhorts him by telling him that a champion like him shouldn't be afraid to take off first for the jump: for Owens the third jump if it had been void would have meant his elimination from the competition (and the certain victory of Luz), but, thanks to the suggestion of a technical nature (and perhaps the laying of the handkerchief...), but also affective-psychological ( !) by Luz, Owens following the advice of his direct rival, makes a formidable jump, which allows him to qualify. Long is the first to congratulate Jesse, both on the occasion of qualifying and after him with his final victory, which will result in his fourth gold medal. A deep, true friendship is born between Long and Jesse, in the videos available of the time it is really exciting to witness their handshakes and their embraces in those first moments, under the stern gaze of the Führer, a friendship that will consolidate in the following days, making a habit of dating in the olympic village. After the 1936 Olympics, in 1939 he became a lawyer, in 1941 he married, shortly after his son Kai was born, in 1942 he was called up as an officer of the Luftwaffe and sent to the front line, in April 1943 he was assigned to the Herman armored division Göring and the following month he was sent to Sicily immediately after the Allied landing on the island (Operation Husky): Long dies at the age of thirty, he is in Niscemi with the armored division, and is thus involved in the fighting for the defense of the Biscari-Santo Pietro airport; the causes of death are not certain, the most plausible is that of an aggravation due to wounds sustained in combat against the Anglo-Americans, he was found by a fellow soldier on the side of a road, from here he was transported to the nearby field hospital, where he died on July 14, 1943. He was first buried in a temporary cemetery, then his body was exhumed and then transferred in 1961 to the German military cemetery of Motta Sant'Anastasia while it was still under construction, now it is there that Luz Long rests: crypt 2 “Caltanissetta”, plate E, his name engraved on the slate slab preceded by the rank “Obergefreiter-dR" (Appointed of the Reserve), followed by the dates of birth 27 IV 13 and of death 14 VII 43; it is what remains of Luz Long, one of the 4,561 German soldiers who died in Sicily during the Second World War and are buried here. In his last letter to his friend Owens, Luz magining its end near, he asks him to go to her son and tell him who had been his father; his friend Jesse did as requested and even went to his son's wedding. And Owens….? … Jesse returned to his homeland did not have the respect he deserved after winning 4 gold medals (!), Those were the times when black people were considered "second class" (!); indeed, although with a nod the fuhrer saluted him (as Owens himself declared), the behavior of the American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unspeakable, he did not even deign to welcome the Olympic winner to the White House as tradition required (! ). Back in the United States, Jesse had to adapt to doing the most varied jobs, including being a boy at a gas station. To make a living he raced against horses, dogs and motorcycles, as a freak show; many years would pass before his value was recognized; he said «all the medals I have won could be melted down, but the 24-carat friendship that was born on the platform in Berlin could never be reproduced».
Postscript:
Long did not share the Nazi objectives and ideology, he was in complete antithesis with them, endowed with great sensitivity and profound nobility of mind, he was very far from the fanatical and cruel creed of Hitler's Germany, as demonstrated by the words he wrote in 1932 in a letter sent to his grandmother: “all the nations of the world have their heroes, the Semites as well as the Aryans. Each of them should abandon the arrogance of feeling like a superior race."
On his tombstone (as well as on others), under which his remains rest closed in a box, next to his name, today there are some small stones, they are small symbols, which recall the Jewish custom of leaving, instead of flowers, a pebble on the graves of the deceased, to demonstrate that his story has not been forgotten, it is a message of peace and brotherhood of which Luz was a promoter in life, his thoughts also reach us through his burial place, because, as stated on the plaque placed at the entrance to the German military cemetery of Motta Sant'Anastasia "the graves of the fallen are the great preachers of peace" (Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize).
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“La storia esiste solo se qualcuno la racconta.”
TIZIANO TERZANI
… questo aforisma per introdurre questo racconto fotografico, che inizia in Germania a ridosso della seconda guerra mondiale, per terminare in maniera tragica in Sicilia: il protagonista principale di questa storia “fotografica” è di origine tedesche,si chiama Carl Ludwig Hermann Long, detto Luz (conosciuto come Luz Long), ma questa storia non potrebbe esistere senza un l’altro grande protagonista, statunitense, si chiama Jesse Owens. Iniziamo con ordine, Luz Long è un brillante studente di legge all'Università di Lipsia, rappresenta l’incarnazione dell’uomo ariano, è alto, biondo, ha un fisico atletico, la sua grande passione, è il salto in lungo, è un talento naturale, ciò gli permettendogli di entrare in breve tempo tra i migliori saltatori in lungo dell’epoca (tanto da conquistare il terzo posto agli Europei del 1934); Long sarà uno dei favoriti nel salto in lungo alle Olimpiadi di Berlino nel 1936, il cui contesto storico è quello della Germania nazista che da lì a poco avrebbe scatenato la Seconda Guerra Mondiale, incluso l’odio raziale sfociato nei campi di sterminio con l’Olocausto. Luz Long viene ricordato per il suo grande gesto di sportività verso il suo diretto avversario statunitense Jesse Owens, che, grazie all’inaspettato aiuto di Long, vincerà la gara del salto in lungo, così conquistando la medaglia d'oro (uno dei quattro ori da lui vinti), mentre Long arriverà secondo vincendo la medaglia d'argento, ma Long viene anche ricordato per la sua sincera amicizia verso Jesse, scevra da odi e pregiudizi raziali. Le Olimpiadi di Berlino rappresentano una straordinaria propaganda agli ideali del Terzo Reich, è un momento storico importantissimo per mostrare al mondo intero la superiorità della razza ariana; le strutture sportive vengono realizzate con la massima cura dall’architetto del regime nazista Albert Speer (con riferimenti architettonici dell’Antica Grecia), la manifestazione sportiva diviene uno strumento ideologico del regime, a tale scopo viene girato il film-documentario “Olympia” del 1938, diretto da Leni Riefenstahl (che oltre ad essere attrice, regista, fotografa, diventa autrice di film e documentari che esaltano il regime nazista), nel docu-film delle olimpiadi vengono impiegate molte tecniche cinematografiche innovative per l'epoca, con inquadrature insolite ed originali, come le riprese dal basso, con primi piani estremi, l'utilizzo di binari nello stadio olimpico per riprendere la folla. Hitler vuole quindi dimostrare con le Olimpiadi la supremazia della razza ariana, l’atleta ariano deve corrispondere ad una figura stereotipata statuaria, alto, biondo, atletico, carnagione chiara, occhi azzurri, Luz Long è la sua incarnazione ideale. Alle Olimpiadi partecipano quarantanove Paesi, un numero mai raggiunto prima; gli atleti ebreo-tedeschi vengono espulsi da tutte le discipline sportive; anche gli afroamericani, sono discriminati nel loro paese, però ad essi viene concesso di gareggiare, anche se in numero minore, uno di loro si chiama James Cleveland Owens, ma tutti lo conoscono come Jesse (per un’errore d’interpretazione da parte del suo professore); sono le sue capacità atletiche a consentirgli di realizzare diversi record, un momento importante è l’incontro con Larry Snyder, un bravo allenatore, e così grazie alle sue vittorie gli si presena l’opportunità di gareggiare alle Olimpiadi di Berlino: sarà lui il protagonista dei giochi olimpici, un ragazzo di 23 anni originario dell’Alabama, che in pochi giorni si aggiudicherà ben 4 medaglie d’oro, la corsa dei 100, dei 200, la corsa a staffetta dei 4x100 e quella del salto in lungo nella quale ci sarà la vicenda con Luz Long che varrà tutte le medaglie d’oro del mondo). Veniamo al dunque, la mattina del 4 agosto 1936 Luz si qualifica per la finale del salto in lungo, per Owens la qualificazione si svolge in concomitanza con la gare dei 200 mt. piani, Ownes è impegnato in entrambe le gare, la contemporaneità dei due eventi, ed un diverso regolamento sportivo tra quello Europeo e quello Statunitense gli comportano due salti nulli, il primo salto egli pensa fosse di prova per saggiare il terreno (come da regolamento Statunitense), invece è un salto valido per la gara, il secondo salto lo vede molto demoralizzato e compie il peggiore salto della sua vita, l’eliminazione è oramai ad un passo, ma Long interpreta con grande profondità d’animo lo stato psichico di prostrazione del suo diretto avversario, lo vede trasformato in volto, abbattuto, Luz gli si avvicina con fare amichevole e gli suggerisce di staccare 20-30 cm prima della linea di battuta, gli mostra il punto esatto dove staccare poggiando un fazzoletto proprio di fianco alla pedana, all’altezza dell’ideale punto di stacco (anche se non tutti coloro che riportano nelle loro cronache l’evento, ricordano il particolare del fazzoletto), ma anche lo esorta dicendogli che un campione come lui non deve temere di staccare prima per il salto, qualche centimetro in meno per lui non sono certo un problema!: per Owens se il terzo salto diviene nullo comporterebbe la sua eliminazione dalla gara (e la sicura vittoria di Luz!), ma, grazie al suggerimento di carattere tecnico (e forse della posa del fazzoletto…), ma anche affettivo-psicologico (!) di Luz, Owens seguendo il consiglio del suo diretto rivale, compie un formidabile salto, il che gli consente di qualificarsi. Long è il primo a congratularsi con Jesse, sia in occasione della sua qualificazione, sia dopo, con la sua vittoria finale, che gli comporterò la conquista della quarta medaglia d’oro. Tra Long e Jesse nasce una profonda, vera amicizia, nei video disponibili dell’epoca è davvero emozionante assistere alle loro strette di mano ed ai loro abbracci di quei primi istanti, sotto lo sguardo severo del Führer, amicizia che si consoliderà nei giorni successivi, prendendo l’abitudine di frequentarsi nel villaggio olimpico. Dopo le Olimpiadi del 1936, nel 1939 Luz diventa avvocato, nel 1941 si sposa, poco dopo nasce suo figlio Kai, nel 1942 è richiamato alle armi come ufficiale della Luftwaffe e spedito in prima linea, nell’aprile del 1943 viene assegnato alla divisione corazzata Herman Göring ed il mese successivo è inviato in Sicilia subito dopo lo sbarco degli Alleati sull’isola (chiamata Operazione Husky): Long muore così a trent'anni, si trova a Niscemi con la divisione corazzata, viene coinvolto nei combattimenti per la difesa dell'aeroporto di Biscari-Santo Pietro; le cause della morte non sono certe, la più plausibile è quella di un suo aggravamento dovuto alle ferite riportate in combattimento contro gli Anglo-Americani, viene trovato ferito da un suo commilitone sul ciglio di una strada, da qui viene trasportato nel vicino ospedale da campo, dove morirà il 14 luglio 1943. Dapprima viene sepolto in un cimitero provvisorio, poi la sua salma viene riesumata e quindi trasferita nel 1961 nel cimitero militare germanico di Motta Sant'Anastasia mentre è ancora in costruzione, adesso è li che Luz Long riposa: cripta 2 “Caltanissetta”, piastra E, il suo nome inciso sulla lastra di ardesia preceduto dal grado “Obergefreiter-dR" (Appuntato della Riserva), seguito dalle date di nascita 27 IV 13 e di morte 14 VII 43; è quanto resta di Luz Long, uno dei 4.561 soldati tedeschi morti in Sicilia durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale e qui sepolti. Nell'ultima lettera all'amico Owens, Luz immaginando che il suo destino a presto si sarebbe compiuto, gli chiede di andare da suo figlio e dirgli chi è stato suo padre; l'amico Jesse fa quanto richiesto, va persino alle nozze del figlio.
Ed Owens….? … Jesse rientrato in patria non riceve dal suo Paese il rispetto che merita dopo aver vinto ben 4 medaglie d'oro (!), sono i tempi in cui le persone di colore vengono considerate di “serie B” (!); addirittura, sebbene con un solo cenno, dal Führer viene salutato (così dichiara lo stesso Owens), invece il comportamento del presidente americano Franklin Delano Roosvelt, è inqualificabile, non si degna di accogliere il vincitore olimpico alla Casa Bianca come prevede la tradizione (!). Tornato negli Stati Uniti Jesse deve adattarsi a fare i lavori più disparati, fra i quali anche il garzone in una pompa di benzina. Per guadagnarsi da vivere gareggia contro cavalli, cani e motociclette, come fenomeno da baraccone; passeranno molti anni prima che gli venga riconosciuto il suo reale valore; egli ebbe a dire «si potrebbero fondere tutte le medaglie che ho vinto, ma non si potrebbe mai riprodurre l’ amicizia a 24 carati che nacque sulla pedana di Berlino».
Post Scriptum:
Long non condivideva gli obiettivi e l'ideologia nazisti, lui era in completa antitesi con esse, dotato di grande sensibilità e profonda nobiltà d’animo, lui era lontanissimo dal credo fanatico e crudele della Germania di Hitler, lo dimostrano le parole che egli scrisse nel 1932 in una lettera inviata a sua nonna: “tutte le nazioni del mondo hanno i propri eroi, i semiti così come gli ariani. Ognuna di loro dovrebbe abbandonare l’arroganza di sentirsi una razza superiore".
Sulla sua lapide (così come su altre), sotto la quale riposano i suoi resti chiusi dentro una cassetta, accanto al suo nome, è posta oggi qualche piccola pietra, sono piccoli simboli, che ricordano l’usanza ebraica di lasciare, al posto dei fiori, un ciottolo sulle tombe dei defunti, per dimostrare che la sua storia non è stata dimenticata, è un messaggio di pace e di fratellanza del quale Luz è stato promotore in vita, il suo pensiero ci giunge anche attraverso il suo luogo di sepoltura, perché, come riporta la targa posta all’entrata del cimitero militare germanico di Motta Sant’Anastasia “i sepolcri dei caduti sono i grandi predicatori della pace” (Albert Schweitzer, premio Nobel per la pace).
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Holi, the Festival of Colours has been celebrated in India since thousands of years and is now also celebrated by various communities of South Asia including non-Hindu communities.
While Holi is celebrated in almost every part of India, Holi in Braj is especially famous. Braj is a historical region which covers the area of Mathura, Vrindavan,Barsana,Nandgaon and some nearby areas. Holi here attacts tourists and pilgrims from all over the world because of it’s special customs and traditions. Mathura is the birth-place of Lord Krishna and Vrindavan is the place where he grew up in his childhood.
When Krishna was young, he cribbed to his mother about Radha (his friend) being fair while Krishna himself was dark complexioned. His mother (Yashoda) suggested him to colour Radha with colors in a playful manner. Over the years, Krishna from his village Nandgaon used to go to Barsana (Radha’s village) to color Radha and other Gopis. They also used to playfully beat him with sticks. And hence the tradition evolved.
According to the legend, menfolk from Nandgaon visit Barsana to celebrate ‘Holi’ with women from Barsana. When these people come visiting, they are welcomed by these women with sticks and are beaten up. The bunch from Nandgaon comes well prepared for it, with a padded shield to counter the attacks. These sticks are called ‘lathths’, hence this holi-celebration is famously known as ‘Laththmaar’ holi.
Next day, the women from Barsana (since the women don’t go, men and trans-genders dressed as women represent women from the village) go to Nandgaon to celebrate Holi with the men from the village. They are welcomed with water and colour everywhere, but the main event takes place in the courtyard of the temple at Nandgaon. This event marks the highlight of the holi celebration at Nandgaon. During the celebrations at the temple courtyard, people from both the villages sit across each other singing, dancing and conversing and this meet-up is termed as ‘samaaj’.
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Liverpool Cathedral is the Church of England Cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, built on St James's Mount in Liverpool and is the seat of the Bishop of Liverpool. It may be referred to as the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool (as recorded in the Document of Consecration) or the Cathedral Church of the Risen Christ, Liverpool, being dedicated to Christ 'in especial remembrance of his most glorious Resurrection'.[1]
The cathedral is based on a design by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. The total external length of the building, including the Lady Chapel (dedicated to the Blessed Virgin), is 207 yards (189 m) making it the longest cathedral in the world;[n 1] its internal length is 160 yards (150 m). In terms of overall volume, Liverpool Cathedral ranks as the fifth-largest cathedral in the world[2] and contests with the incomplete Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City for the title of largest Anglican church building.[3] With a height of 331 feet (101 m) it is also one of the world's tallest non-spired church buildings and the third-tallest structure in the city of Liverpool. The cathedral is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[4]
The Anglican cathedral is one of two in the city. The other, the Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Liverpool, is situated approximately half a mile to the north. The cathedrals are linked by Hope Street, which takes its name from William Hope, a local merchant whose house stood on the site now occupied by the Philharmonic Hall, and was named long before either cathedral was built.
Background
John Charles Ryle was installed as the first Bishop of Liverpool in 1880, but the new diocese had no cathedral, merely a "pro-cathedral", the parish church of St Peter's, Church Street. St Peter's was unsatisfactory; it was too small for major church events, and moreover was, in the words of the Rector of Liverpool, "ugly & hideous".[5] In 1885 an Act of Parliament authorised the building of a cathedral on the site of the existing St John's Church, adjacent to St George's Hall.[6] A competition was held for the design, and won by Sir William Emerson. The site proved unsuitable for the erection of a building on the scale proposed, and the scheme was abandoned.[6]
In 1900 Francis Chavasse succeeded Ryle as Bishop, and immediately revived the project to build a cathedral.[7] There was some opposition from among members of Chavasse's diocesan clergy, who maintained that there was no need for an expensive new cathedral. The architectural historian John Thomas argues that this reflected "a measure of factional strife between Liverpool Anglicanism's very Evangelical or Low Church tradition, and other forces detectable within the religious complexion of the new diocese."[8] Chavasse, though himself an Evangelical, regarded the building of a great church as "a visible witness to God in the midst of a great city".[8] He pressed ahead, and appointed a committee under Sir William Forwood to consider all possible sites. The St John's site being ruled out, Forwood's committee identified four locations: St Peter's and St Luke's, which were, like St John's, found to be too restricted; a triangular site at the junction of London Road and Monument Place;[n 2] and St James's Mount.[9] There was considerable debate about the competing merits of the two possible sites, and Forwood's committee was inclined to favour the London Road triangle. However, the cost of acquiring it was too great, and the St James's Mount site was recommended.[9] An historian of the cathedral, Vere Cotton, wrote in 1964:
Looking back after an interval of sixty years, it is difficult to realise that any other decision was even possible. With the exception of Durham, no English cathedral is so well placed to be seen to advantage both from a distance and from its immediate vicinity. That such a site, convenient to yet withdrawn from the centre of the city … dominating the city and clearly visible from the river, should have been available is not the least of the many strokes of good fortune which have marked the history of the cathedral.[9]
Fund-raising began, and new enabling legislation was passed by Parliament. The Liverpool Cathedral Act 1902 authorised the purchase of the site and the building of a cathedral, with the proviso that as soon as any part of it opened for public worship, St Peter's Church should be demolished and its site sold to provide the endowment of the new cathedral's chapter. St Peter's place as Parish Church of Liverpool would be taken by the existing church of St Nicholas near the Pier Head.[9] St Peter's Church closed in 1919, and was finally demolished in 1922.[10]
1901 competition
In late 1901, two well-known architects were appointed as assessors for an open competition for architects wishing to be considered for the design of the cathedral.[11] G. F. Bodley was a leading exponent of the Gothic revival style, and a former pupil and relative by marriage of Sir George Gilbert Scott.[12] R. Norman Shaw was an eclectic architect, having begun in the Gothic style, and later favouring what his biographer Andrew Saint calls "full-blooded classical or imperial architecture".[13]
Architects were invited by public advertisement to submit portfolios of their work for consideration by Bodley and Shaw. From these, the two assessors selected a first shortlist of architects to be invited to prepare drawings for the new building. It was stipulated that the designs were to be in the Gothic style.[14] Robert Gladstone, a member of the committee to which the assessors were to report said, "There could be no question that Gothic architecture produced a more devotional effect upon the mind than any other which human skill had invented."[15] This condition caused controversy. Reginald Blomfield and others protested at the insistence on a Gothic style, a "worn-out flirtation in antiquarianism, now relegated to the limbo of art delusions."[16] An editorial in The Times observed, "To impose a preliminary restriction is unwise and impolitic … the committee must not hamper itself at starting with a condition which is certain to exclude many of the best men."[17] Eventually it was agreed that the assessors would also consider "designs of a Renaissance or Classical character".[18]
For architects, the competition was an important event; not only was it for one of the largest building projects of its time, but it was only the third opportunity to build an Anglican cathedral in England since the Reformation in the 16th century (St Paul's Cathedral being the first, rebuilt from scratch after the Great Fire of London in 1666, and Truro Cathedral being the second, begun in the 19th century).[18] The competition attracted 103 entries,[18] from architects including Temple Moore, Charles Rennie Mackintosh,[19] Charles Reilly,[20] and Austin and Paley.[21]
In 1903, the assessors recommended a proposal submitted by the 22-year-old Giles Gilbert Scott, who was still an articled pupil working in Temple Moore's practice,[22] and had no existing buildings to his credit. He told the assessors that so far his only major work had been to design a pipe-rack.[23] The choice of winner was even more contentious with the Cathedral Committee when it was discovered that Scott was a Roman Catholic,[n 3] but the decision stood.[22]
Scott's first design
Although young, Scott was steeped in ecclesiastical design and well versed in the Gothic revival style, his grandfather, George Gilbert Scott, and father George Gilbert Scott, Jr. having designed numerous churches.[24] George Bradbury, the surveyor to the Cathedral Committee, reported, "Mr. Scott seems to have inherited the architectural genius so marked in the Scott family for the last three or four generations ... He is very pleasant, agreeable, enthusiastic, tall and looks considerably older than he actually is."[8] Appearances notwithstanding, Scott's inexperience prompted the Cathedral Committee to appoint Bodley to oversee the detailed architectural design and building work. Work began without delay. The foundation stone was laid by King Edward VII in 1904.[5]
Cotton observes that it was generous of Bodley to enter into a working relationship with a young and untried student.[25] Bodley had been a close friend of Scott's father, but his collaboration with the young Scott was fractious, especially after Bodley accepted commissions to design two cathedrals in the US,[n 4] necessitating frequent absences from Liverpool.[22] Scott complained that this "has made the working partnership agreement more of a farce than ever, and to tell the truth my patience with the existing state of affairs is about exhausted".[22] Scott was on the point of resigning when Bodley died suddenly in 1907, leaving him in charge.[26] The Cathedral Committee appointed Scott sole architect, and though it reserved the right to appoint another co-architect, it never seriously considered doing so.[8]
Scott's 1910 redesign
In 1909, free of Bodley and growing in confidence, Scott submitted an entirely new design for the main body of the cathedral.[27] His original design had two towers at the west end[n 5] and a single transept; the revised plan called for a single central tower 85.344 metres (280.00 ft) high, topped with a lantern and flanked by twin transepts.[29][n 6] The Cathedral Committee, shaken by such radical changes to the design they had approved, asked Scott to work his ideas out in fine detail and submit them for consideration.[27] He worked on the plans for more than a year, and in November 1910, the committee approved them.[27] In addition to the change in the exterior, Scott's new plans provided more interior space.[31] At the same time Scott modified the decorative style, losing much of the Gothic detailing and introducing a more modern, monumental style.[32]
The Lady Chapel (originally intended to be called the Morning Chapel),[8] the first part of the building to be completed, was consecrated in 1910 by Bishop Chavasse in the presence of two Archbishops and 24 other Bishops.[33] The date, 29 June – St Peter's Day, was chosen to honour the pro-cathedral, now due to be demolished.[34] The Manchester Guardian described the ceremony:
The Bishop of Liverpool knocked on the door with his pastoral staff, saying in a loud voice, "Open ye the gates." The doors having been flung open, the Earl of Derby, resplendent in the golden robes of the Chancellor of Liverpool University, presented Dr. Chavasse with the petition for consecration. … The Archbishop of York, whose cross was carried before him and who was followed by two train-bearers clad in scarlet cassocks, was conducted to the sedilla and the rest of the Bishops, with the exception of Dr. Chavasse, who knelt before his episcopal chair in the sanctuary, found accommodation in the choir stalls.[35]
The richness of the décor of the Lady Chapel may have dismayed some of Liverpool's Evangelical clergy. Thomas suggests that they were confronted with "a feminised building which lacked reference to the 'manly' and 'muscular Christian' thinking which had emerged in reaction to the earlier feminisation of religion."[8] He adds that the building would have seemed to many to be designed for Anglo-Catholic worship.[8]
Second phase
Work was severely limited during the First World War, with a shortage of manpower, materials and donations.[36] By 1920, the workforce had been brought back up to strength and the stone quarries at Woolton, source of the pinkish-red sandstone for most of the building, reopened.[36] The first section of the main body of the cathedral was complete by 1924. It comprised the chancel, an ambulatory, chapter house and vestries.[37] The section was closed with a temporary wall, and on 19 July 1924, the 20th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone, the cathedral was consecrated in the presence of King George V and Queen Mary, and Bishops and Archbishops from around the globe.[36] Major works ceased for a year while Scott once again revised his plans for the next section of the building: the tower, the under-tower and the central transept.[38] The tower in his final design was higher and narrower than his 1910 conception.[39]
From July 1925 work continued steadily, and it was hoped to complete the whole section by 1940.[40] The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 caused similar problems to those of the earlier war. The workforce dwindled from 266 to 35; moreover, the building was damaged by German bombs.[41] Despite these vicissitudes, the central section was complete enough by July 1941 to be handed over to the Dean and Chapter. Scott laid the last stone of the last pinnacle on the tower on 20 February 1942.[42] No further major works were undertaken during the rest of the war. Scott produced his plans for the nave in 1942, but work on it did not begin until 1948.[43] The bomb damage, particularly to the Lady Chapel, was not fully repaired until 1955.[44]
Completion
Scott died in 1960. The first bay of the nave was then nearly complete, and was handed over to the Dean and Chapter in April 1961. Scott was succeeded as architect by Frederick Thomas.[45] Thomas, who had worked with Scott for many years, drew up a new design for the west front of the cathedral. The Guardian commented, "It was an inflation beater, but totally in keeping with the spirit of the earlier work, and its crowning glory is the Benedicite Window designed by Carl Edwards and covering 1,600 sq. ft."[46]
The version recorded in Gavin Stamp`s obituary of Richard Gilbert Scott, which appeared in The Guardian 15 July 2017, differs slightly: " When his father died the following year (1960), Richard inherited the practice and was left to complete several jobs. He continued with the great work of building Liverpool Cathedral but, after adding two bays of the nave (using cheaper materials: concrete and fibreglass), he resigned when it was proposed drastically to alter his father’s design. The cathedral was eventually completed with a much simplified and diminished west end drawn out by his father’s former assistant, Roger Pinckney".[47]
The completion of the building was marked by a service of thanksgiving and dedication in October 1978, attended by Queen Elizabeth II. In the spirit of ecumenism that had been fostered in Liverpool, the Roman Catholic Archbishop Derek Worlock played a major part in the ceremony.
Dean and chapter
Dean – Vacant
Vice Dean and Canon Precentor – The Revd Canon Myles Davies (Canon since 2006; Precentor since 2008; Acting Dean, 2011–2012, then 2017-)
Canon for Mission and Evangelism – The Revd Canon Richard White (since 2009 installation)
Canon Chancellor – The Revd Canon Ellen Loudon (since 2016 installation)
Canon for Discipleship – The Revd Canon Paul Rattigan (since 2013 installation)
Completed building
The cathedral's west window by Carl Johannes Edwards.[49] The uppermost window is the Benedicite window. The pink neon sign by Tracey Emin reads "I felt you and I knew you loved me“ and was installed 2008 when Liverpool became European Capital of Culture.
The cathedral's official website gives the dimensions of the building as
Length: 188.7 metres (619 ft)
Area: 9,687.4 square metres (104,274 sq ft)
Height of tower: 100.8 metres (331 ft)
Choir vault: 35.3 metres (116 ft)
Nave vault: 36.5 metres (120 ft)
Under tower vault: 53.3 metres (175 ft)
Tower arches: 32.6 metres (107 ft)
The cathedral was built mainly of local sandstone quarried from the South Liverpool suburb of Woolton. The last sections (The Well of the Cathedral at the west end in the 1960s and 1970s) used the closest matching sandstone that could be found from other NW quarries once the supply from Woolton had been exhausted.
The belltower is the largest, and also one of the tallest, in the world (see List of tallest churches in the world). It houses the world's highest (67 m (220 ft)) and heaviest (16.5 long tons (16.8 tonnes)) ringing peal of bells, and the third-heaviest bourdon bell (14.5 long tons (14.7 tonnes)) in the United Kingdom.[50]
Services and other uses
The cathedral is open daily all year round from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm (except Christmas Day when it closes to the public at 3 pm), and regular services are held every day of the week at 8:30 am: Morning Prayer (Holy Communion on Sundays). 12:05 pm Monday-Saturday (Communion) and Monday–Friday at 5:30pm (Evensong or said Evening Prayer according to day and time of year). At the weekend, there is also a 3pm Evensong service on Saturdays and Sundays with a main Cathedral Eucharist at 10:30 am, which attracts a large core congregation each week. It also has a more intimate Communion on Sundays at 4 pm. Since early 2011, the cathedral has also offered a regular, more informal form of cafe-style worship called "Zone 2", running parallel to its main Sunday Eucharist each week and held in the lower rooms in the Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Function Suite (formerly the Western Rooms). The core services at 5:30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10:30am on Sundays and 3pm Saturdays and Sundays are supported on each occasion during term time by the cathedral choir.[51]
Following the closure of their building in Rodney Street in 1975, the Liverpool St. Andrew's congregation of the Church of Scotland used the Radcliffe Room of the cathedral for Sunday services. The congregation finally disbanded in November 2016.[citation needed]
Admission to the cathedral is free, but with a suggested donation of £3.[n 7] Car parking is available on site on a pay-on-exit basis. Parking is free for attendance at all services. Access to the main floor of the cathedral is restricted during services and some of the major events.[52]
The building also plays host to a wide range of events and special services including concerts, academic events involving local schools, graduations, exhibitions, family activities, seminars, conferences, corporate events, commemorative services, anniversary services and many more. Its maximum capacity for any major event including special services is 3,500 standing, or about 2,300 fully seated. The ground floor of the cathedral is fully accessible.
Liverpool Cathedral has its own specialist constabulary to keep watch on an all-year 24-hour basis. The Liverpool Cathedral Constables together with the York Minster Police and several other cathedrals' constable units are members of the Cathedral Constables' Association.[53]
Bells
At 67 m (220 ft) above floor level, the bells of Liverpool Cathedral are the highest and heaviest ringing peal in the world. [n 8] Two lifts are provided for the use of the bellringers and other visitors to the tower. The peal proper (hung for full-circle change ringing) consists of thirteen bells weighing a total of 16.5 long tons (16.8 tonnes), which are named the Bartlett Bells after Thomas Bartlett (died 4 September 1912), a native of Liverpool who bequeathed the funding.[54] The bells vary in size and note from the comparatively light 10 long cwt (510 kilograms) treble to the tenor weighing 4 long tons (4.1 tonnes). The 13th bell (sharp 2nd) is extra to the main 12-bell peal, and its purpose is to make possible ringing in a correct octave on lighter bells.[55] All thirteen bells were cast by Mears & Stainbank of Whitechapel in London.[56] The initial letters of the inscriptions on the thirteen bells spell out the name "Thomas Bartlett" (from tenor to treble).[57]
The Bartlett bells are hung in a circle around the bourdon bell "Great George".[n 9] At 14.5 long tons (14.7 tonnes), Great George is the third most massive bell in the British Isles. (Only the 16.5 long tons (16.8 tonnes) "Great Paul" of St Paul's Cathedral in London, and the 2012 Olympic Bell (22.91 tonnes) are heavier.) Great George, cast by Taylors of Loughborough and named in memory of King George V, is hung in a pendant position and is sounded by means of a counterbalanced clapper.[59]
Music
Organ
The organ, built by Henry Willis & Sons, is the largest pipe organ in the UK with two five-manual consoles, 10,268 pipes and a trompette militaire.[60] There is an annual anniversary recital on the Saturday nearest to 18 October, the date of the organ's consecration. There is a two-manual Willis organ in the Lady Chapel.[61][62]
Organists and directors of music
1880- 1916 – Frederick Hampton Burstall (died 1916)
1915–1955 – Walter Henry Goss-Custard
1931–1982 – Ronald Woan (director of music)
1955–1980 – Noel Rawsthorne
1980 – Ian Tracey (later organist titulaire)
2008 – David Poulter (director of music)
Assistant organists
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Noel Rawsthorne 1949–1955 (afterwards organist)
Lewis Rust (part-time) student at Liverpool Institute and ex-chorister
Ian Tracey 1976–1980 (afterwards organist)
Ian Wells 1980–2007
Daniel Bishop 2010–present
Organ scholars
Lewis Rust (approx dates 1960–70)
Ian Tracey (organist) (later organiste titulaire)
Ian Wells (later, Holy Trinity, Southport)
Geoff Williams 1983-85 (now Director of Music, St Anne's Stanley)
Stephen Disley (now assistant organist and director of the girls' choir, Southwark Cathedral)
Paul Daggett
Martin Payne 1994–95
David Leahey 1995–97
Keith Hearnshaw 1997–98
Michael Wynne
Gerrard Callacher
Daniel Bishop (later associate organist)
Shean Bowers 2004–06 (later assistant director of music at Bath Abbey)
Samuel Austin 2007–08 (later assistant director of music at Aldenham School)
Martyn Noble (2009–11)
James Speakman (2011-12)
Daniel Mansfield (2014 - 17)
Artists and sculptors
The high altar
In 1931, Scott asked Edward Carter Preston to produce a series of sculptures for Liverpool Cathedral. The project was an immense undertaking which occupied the artist for the next thirty years. The work for the cathedral included fifty sculptures, ten memorials and several reliefs. Many inscriptions in the cathedral were jointly written by Dean Dwelly and the sculptor who subsequently carved them.
In 1993 "The Welcoming Christ", a large bronze sculpture by Dame Elisabeth Frink, was installed over the outside of the west door of the cathedral.[63] This was one of her last completed works, installed within days of her death.[64]
In 2003 the Liverpool artist, Don McKinlay, who knew Carter Preston from his youth, was commissioned by the cathedral to model an infant Christ to accompany the 15th century Madonna by Giovanni della Robbia Madonna now situated in the Lady Chapel.[65]
In 2008 a work entitled "For You" by Tracey Emin was installed at the west end of cathedral the below the Benedicite window. The pink neon sign reads "I felt you and I knew you loved me", and was installed when Liverpool became European Capital of Culture. The work was originally intended to be a temporary installation for one month as part of the Capital of Culture programme, but is now a permanent feature.[63]
Another work by Emin, "The Roman Standard" takes the form of a small bronze sparrow on a metal pole, and was installed in 2005 outside the Oratory Chapel close to the west end of the cathedral.[66] The sparrow was stolen (twice) in 2008, but on both occasions was returned and replaced.[67]
Stained glass
The firm of James Powell and Sons (Whitefriars), Ltd., of London, provided most of the stained glass designs. John William Brown (1842–1928) designed the Te Deum window in the east end of the cathedral, as well as the original windows for the Lady Chapel, which was heavily damaged during German bombing raids in 1940. The glass in the Lady Chapel was replaced with designs, based on the originals, by James Humphries Hogan (1883–1948). He was one of the most prolific of the Powell and Sons designers; his designs can also be seen in the large north and south windows in the central space of the cathedral (each 100 feet tall). Later artists include William Wilson (1905–1972), who began his work at Liverpool Cathedral after the death of Hogan, Herbert Hendrie (1887–1946), and Carl Edwards (1914–1985), who designed the Benedicite window in the west front. The cathedral has approximately 1,700 m² of stained glass.[68]
Burials
Chavasse and Scott are buried in the precinct of the cathedral, the former in Founder's Plot, and the latter at the west end of the site.[69] Clergy buried within the cathedral include the bishops Albert David and David Sheppard. Among the benefactors whose remains are buried in the cathedral are William and Edmund Vestey and Frederick Radcliffe. The ashes of the donor of the cathedral bells, Thomas Bartlett are interred in a casket in the ringing room.[69] At the rear of the memorial to the 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division rest the ashes of Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Jeudwine, who commanded the division from its formation in 1916 until the end of the First World War.[70]
Check out the Entire Album "Mathura Holi | 2016" for more Pictures.
Holi, the Festival of Colours has been celebrated in India since thousands of years and is now also celebrated by various communities of South Asia including non-Hindu communities.
While Holi is celebrated in almost every part of India, Holi in Braj is especially famous. Braj is a historical region which covers the area of Mathura, Vrindavan,Barsana,Nandgaon and some nearby areas. Holi here attacts tourists and pilgrims from all over the world because of it’s special customs and traditions. Mathura is the birth-place of Lord Krishna and Vrindavan is the place where he grew up in his childhood.
When Krishna was young, he cribbed to his mother about Radha (his friend) being fair while Krishna himself was dark complexioned. His mother (Yashoda) suggested him to colour Radha with colors in a playful manner. Over the years, Krishna from his village Nandgaon used to go to Barsana (Radha’s village) to color Radha and other Gopis. They also used to playfully beat him with sticks. And hence the tradition evolved.
Her face seems so perfect to me - I guess because she has such a smooth complexion and perfectly tattoed eyebrows... I always describe her as a comic book character.. dont know if that sounds bad.. but its true. She is gorgeous like an Andy Warhol pop graphic. ;)
This is my second experimental attempt at using a panty to achieve a soft focus effect.
This does do a fairly effective job of removing most wrinkles from my ruddy, weathered complexion.
In fact, I think this is the best self-portrait I've ever done.
Experiment Status: SUCCESS
Still unable to use makeup due to my little complexion problem but hope is on the horizon, the GP has just prescribed antibiotics which he says will clear it up.
This is a photo in my very full and flouncy Per Una Skirt, I am wearing wedge sandals which I love to wear.
January 7, 2010
Day 11/365
Bronica ETRSi, Ilford Delta 100
OK, so I cheated for today. Instead of shooting something new, I am merely uploading something new. I am using this image to demonstrate the difference between what the film objectively sees compared to what I subjectively see, and thus, am able to print in the darkroom. So, yes. This is a scan (with no photoshop improvements) directly compared to a print. I apologize for the lame Photoshop diptych and lettering skills...
On the left is straight scan from film with no improvement. It is dull and gray. The subject, my lovely photo friend and model, Sam, is backlit by the afternoon sun. She is sitting on a bed near the window.
On the right is my "high key" image of Sam. HK is defined by low contrast, mostly white, and little black. It is not simply "blown out" or overexposed. Witness the subtle tonality throughout the textures in the cloth of her dress and the complexion of her skin. That detail is not available in an overexposure.
So, what's the trick? Overexpose, but the rest is mine. :)
Day 4 of my self-imposed November Art Challenge to get photos I've saved for reference off my phone. This one, seen on Instagram account @misfitsmarket, is of golden radishes and I screen-grabbed it in 2019. Yes, I have things that old, thus the need for this challenge! LOL
Art Philosophy watercolor palettes Complexion and Decadent Pies painted in my Field art journal.
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Arnab and I were exploring the potential backgrounds of the Covent Garden area when we found this lovely alleyway, with nice light and relatively few people passing through. I waited patiently to see if someone I felt inspired by passed us, and then I saw Josie striding purposefully towards something or someone. I intercepted her and let her know I thought she had a lovely complexion, and would she agree to a portrait? It turned out that Josie had a friend waiting for her right there and I had managed to (inadvertently) interrupt their greetings! Oops.
However, Josie was up for it and her friend was also a good sport, encouraging her not to worry about maknig her wait a little longer, so off we went to the alleyway!
Arnab kindly helped hold a silver reflector to bring up the shadows on Josie's face on the right at first, but then this didn't quite work as the light that was reflected was almost as strong as the normal light reaching the other side of Josie's face, making it less contrasty than I'd have liked. So we switched to the reflector on the left side to complement the natural light but evening it out from the bottom, resulting in smooth tones across the lighter side of Josie's face. It did mean the darker side needed a little post production work to smooth the shadows, but I am quite happy with how it turned out (it was around 10 minutes work so not much processing). Josie's delicate features and her boho outfit really works with this warm background. I wish I'd moved her a little so her head blocked out the lighter area behind it (by moving her away from it more) but that's a learning for a future encounter... :)
I decided to take close-up shots of Our Lady's antique (more than 150 years old) image from Spain, to show her lovely Castillian features, despite her Moorish complexion.
She and a co-worker had a dolly of large packages they were pushing along the sidewalk. They stopped to take a break and I got three interesting candids. I like this one, because she glanced up...her expression is wonderful!
I like the slight flush of here complexion...hard work, hot day!
You guys! This is major! Riviera Drama Agnes Von Weiss’ full promo shots are finally unveiled and she is phenomenal!
As we were only shown a sketch when we pre-ordered her I’ve thought about what the color of her jumpsuit would be so I went ahead and made some edits on Photoshop and the first color I picked is the one you are seeing right now on the sketch on the left which I did back in January and sure enough the designers picked almost the same exact color! The only change I did was her skin tone to match Agnes’ Cream skin tone which I did recently. I originally gave the sketch a dark skin tone because among the characters to choose from I chose Jordan who I thought would look amazing in this color with her dark complexion, plus we haven’t seen her in a very long time that I want her released as the Upgrade doll so badly. But the good thing is that we will still see her possibly as part of the main FR collection this year. I didn’t want to expect too much of this doll because there are times that some dolls are not as outstanding as they are from their initial sketch but seeing how beautiful the outcome of this doll, I am definitely ecstatic that I took a risk of pre-ordering two copies.
The color of her dress can be off-putting more so with her red purse that she looks like she’s ready for a Christmas party. But as I stare at the promo shots I might have to go out on a limb here and say that I actually love the color on her. I wanted this shade of green which I associate with water and the ocean but to some they associate the color with pine trees and the holidays. We’ve seen blues, and turquoise and lavenders that I wanted something different from what we already have. I believe the jumpsuit was inspired by one of the looks from Elie Saab Resort 2017. The one shoulder, the asymmetrical lines and the pleats on the bodice are similarly done but the Elie Saab jumpsuit had a lace insert on the mid-section and a long panel falling down the back of the shoulder all the way to the floor. These details would have added drama to her look. Let’s stress on the drama, shall we? I do love this jumpsuit but it could have been better. The wedges they chose for her are on the basic side. Once again, I like them but I don’t love them. I’m sure that they’re based on a pair of designer shoes but I would have expected a more elevated and a more fashion forward shoe style and not the typical wedge that we see with resort looks. Elie Saab resort 2017 had the most amazing platforms and wedges and actually Versace has the most amazing shoes this year (um… google them!) and I would love to see them in doll scale. I’m hoping that we have better shoes for the main FR collection. This feels safe and I don’t want safe! Those flat sandals they’re introducing this year better be top notch or else…!
She is not head-to-toe perfection I get that. I would have chosen a different color for the clutch purse, a different set of jewelry and a different pair of shoes but the doll itself is a winner. I mean… wow! Again I was preparing myself to be disappointed but I’m impressed! The face design looks like High Gloss/ Firefly which in all honesty I am not really a fan of. Love the eyebrows but comparing High Gloss to Silver Zinger I would choose the latter because that combo of High Gloss brows and Optic Verve side eye is perfection. With Riviera Drama I’m seeing a modified and improved version of the High Gloss/ Firefly screening. There are times that it looks like High Gloss and Firefly looks a bit cross-eyed with the position of their irises and I’m hoping and praying that they fixed the screening with Riviera Drama. I love how soft her make-up palette is in contrast to the fierce attitude she’s giving. Now I can’t wait for the main Fashion Royalty collection to be revealed. I think it’s going to be amazing!