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A 1966 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible spotted outside the Union League Club on my evening walk back to the L after work today.
Downtown, The Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
Monday, July 1, 2013.
My honey was posing for me in his Abe Lincoln costume. I didn't get a shot with his hands in a better position, but I kinda like the shot anyway. I've been pretty busy and stressed with people I shouldn't let get to me...Seeing all of you guys pictures again makes me smile though.
Project 2020/366 - Day 133: Abe
The Great Emancipator surveys U Street and wonders what sort of magic machinery he sees across the way.
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So, while all the tourists gather into the Lincoln Memorial at D.C. and take the You Do Me I will shoot you photo, me and the Empress wander into the tiny, small, Lincoln memorial Bookstore, I look up and say...I gotta HRD this, 3 hand held not so great exposures of one of the coolest places that celebrate one of the Greatest men in History, his B-day is close! This is a weird angle, hope it works, I cropped the top of several heads out.
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I met Abe on top of Flattop Peak. He had hiked up with a group of paragliders and was the last still on the mountain. He had a few failed attempts getting up off the top and was about to give it one last chance. We spoke for a moment and and I asked about another part of the peak where it was a bit more flat (like a runway) and the wind was passing over (which also made me think of how planes take off into the wind). We moved our conversation over there and I let him gather his things for another try while I ventured further down the trail to see what there was to see.
I didn't think I was gone long but when I turned back around I saw Abe up in the air and he did several loops around the top. I had forgotten to get contact info for him, but I was glad that we could still communicate. He shouted where to find him and his name and said he might see me at the parking lot.
I started down the moutain before he did, but he beat me to the parking lot by a half hour at least.
Watching fellow bookworms, a bust of Kentucky native Abraham Lincoln sits on a Kentucky library windowsill. President Abraham Lincoln was a learned self-taught man and lawyer. The still-standing and well-kept home of the wealthy parents of his Kentucky wife is in downtown Lexington, not too far away. A replica of the humble log cabin home of Abe's grandmother is west of here in a wooded area. His parents were married in the nearby town of Springfield. And of course, he was born and lived west of here on the family farm in Hodgenville.
Mr. Lincoln's native state did not elect him President nor did they elect his Democratic political foe, Mr. Stephen Douglas. Right before the Civil War, both Republicans and Democrats were too radical for most Kentuckians. Although Kentucky voters as a whole liked having slaves, Kentuckians overwhelmingly voted instead for the candidate of the Constitutional Union Party, a third-party formed for the 1860 Presidential election that was against secession over the slavery issue. It was organized by former Whig party members who wanted a union above all else and adherence to a U.S. Constitution. (Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution specifically bans states from organizing a Confederacy.)
Abe is going to live in Japan! His design is much different than my others and I am very pleased with how he has turned out! He is a little under 4 inches tall and is partially jointed. His arms move but his head and legs do not. Something else different is that he is weighted with steel shot in his tummy. I love the way this makes him feel! xoxo
Meet the Polish Beckham lille abe aka Michal.
Met up with him in the recent HK Walk.
Taken with Rolleiflex 2.8F.
New York series will resume later! :)
Rekha Basu Seattle Times
When is an apology a heartfelt effort to make things right, and when is it motivated by self-interest, a formality necessary to complete a deal? And how much difference should that make to the wronged party?
These questions are being appropriately raised since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday apologized to the government of South Korea for the Japanese military’s use of South Korean “comfort women” during Japan’s occupation from 1932 to 1945. As further restitution, Japan will pay $8.3 million to a foundation to be established by South Korea for services to surviving victims. There are reported to be between 46 and 53 in that country.
“Comfort women” is a feel-good term used for the as many as 200,000 Asian and Dutch women and girls who befell various terrors during World War II. Some as young as 12 were captured or lured with false promises of factory work or other employment in their homelands of China, Indonesia (then a Dutch colony), the Philippines and North and South Korea. They were sent to brothels to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers and held for months or even years.
The practice only became public in 1991, when a Korean survivor disclosed her experience. At first the Japanese government denied it. Then, in 1993, it apologized and paid some donated money to South Korea. It said an investigation had confirmed Japan’s military had recruited Asian and European women to work in army brothels during World War II and kept them captive. It said private recruiters had often been used, but in some cases “administrative personnel directly took part in the recruitment.”
But that apology didn’t satisfy survivors, who have staged weekly protests for 22 years in front of the Japanese embassy in South Korea’s capital, Seoul. Later, Abe was pressured by Japan’s conservatives, who suggested there was no forcible recruitment, to review the evidence and rescind the apology. During a visit to the United States in April, Abe disappointed survivors by not mentioning the topic in a speech to Congress. He was confronted by protesters. South Korean President Park Geun-hye urged Japan to address the matter and refused to meet with Abe on regional issues.
Some Japanese nationals continue to deny “comfort women” were forced or coerced, saying they were prostitutes. It took pressure from the United States to bring about this week’s announcement. President Obama urged Japan and South Korea — its closest allies in the region — to resolve the dispute so the countries can put up a united front against China and North Korea.
In Seoul on Monday, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Abe “expresses anew sincere apologies and remorse from the bottom of his heart to all those who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as ‘comfort women.’” Abe later called Park to apologize, and she called for a new era of trust between the countries.
But some critics still don’t consider the apology enough. Mira Yusef, who founded and runs Monsoon: United Asian Women of Iowa, a sexual assault and domestic violence prevention organization, said, “The ones on top (government leaders) are making those decisions. Survivors didn’t even have a say in it.”
Yusef says it’s not even clear South Korea’s survivors will get the money. Most did not marry; they were too stigmatized, she says. Many suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and many could never have sex or bear children because of physical abuses. Some committed suicide.
In a project called Comfort Women Wanted, Korean-born artist Chang-Jin Lee interviewed survivors and witnesses on camera.
In the interviews, a former Japanese soldier said women were required to have sex with 50 to 100 soldiers a day. A Korean woman spoke of being kidnapped at 15 and taken to a brothel. A Dutch woman in Indonesia recalled being lined up with other girls 18 and older, loaded onto trucks as their watching mothers screamed, and taken to a brothel. A Filipina woman said she was kidnapped by Japanese soldiers at a market with her grandmother at 14, and both were forced into sexual slavery. An 81-year-old Indonesian woman described how it went: “The soldiers came in one by one. This was not work, this was an assault. It hurt me inside. Some of the men beat me. It hurt my heart. I hated being treated like that.”
There are 70 former “comfort women” in the Philippines, but to date, they’ve received no compensation or apology, according to Yusef, who is from that country. Neither have survivors in other countries.
Monday’s agreement calls for South Korea and Japan to no longer criticize each other over the issue. It has South Korea agreeing to remove a statue in front of the Japanese embassy in tribute to the “comfort women.” Abe told reporters the agreement was made to stop future generations from having to keep apologizing.
Yusef believes in forgiveness, but not this way. She wants Japan’s treatment of “comfort women” to be remembered and taught as a stain on Japan’s history — not whitewashed or buried.
Nothing can make up for the women’s lost years, or the humiliation, brutality and fear they suffered. But since perpetrators will never be brought to justice, Japan could show its sincerity by erecting its own monuments to those wronged, by refuting the deniers, and by repeating George Santayana’s famous line: Those who cannot learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
This morning I showed you my friend Teddy, tonight I'll introduce Abe. They both spent some time with me on a rare but recent snowy evening. There are such moments where I think I feel more kinship to metal sculptures of people than I do with people themselves. Maybe it is their stoic indifference in the face of time, weather, or dark of night.
I will tell you that one thing I see in this image that you will not is the memory of how cold my fingers were when I had to take them out of their mittens to reload my camera with the roll of film that would come to hold this exposure. But I saw this scene after exhausting the previous roll and I knew that cold fingers would eventually fade, photographically preserved thoughts last quite a bit longer.
Pentax 67 / Kodak Tri-X
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Nikon D3s with Nikkor 105mm F2.5 Ai
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Honest Abe Lincoln hangs out in front of the Montgomery County Courthouse in downtown Hillsboro, Illinois and is always ready to carry on a conversation.
@abe.besoum for @ilovemodelsmngt
© Brian George
Nikon D3s with Nikkor AF Micro 60mm F2.8D
Instagram: @briangeorgem
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. In doing so, he preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.