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Shot yesterday at Prospect Park during a NYC Parks Arts in the Parks event there.This little fella wasn't easy to shoot.It was fluttering about quite rapidly.I think it's called a Small White.The male has one spot on the upper forewings,the female has two or more spots.
Labor Day is a federal holiday in the United States celebrated on the first Monday in September to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the works and contributions of laborers to the development and achievements of the United States. It is the Monday of the long weekend known as Labor Day Weekend.
Have a nice Holiday.
Single-room cabin costs two dollars and fifty cents, double room four dollars per week. Water hauled, usually priced at fifty-five cents for fifty-five gallon tank. Toilet for about 150 people. Near Belle Glade, Florida
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
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© Marion Post Wolcott, 1939
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
Glass plate negative 6x8
Solomon D. Butcher, photographer, 1906
Nebraska State Historical Society, P.O. Box 82554, 1500 R Street, Lincoln, NE 68501
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©Solomon D. Butcher, 1906
© Alain Girard, Restored & Colorized, 2022
Two Thai rice workers ride a planting machine along the muddy banks of a paddy field in the Pa Sang District of Lamphun Province.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 200, f/8.0, 130mm, 1/500s
I have followed these three buildings located on W. Cass City Rd, just west of M25 (near Quanicassee) for about 40 years. Every so often I would photograph their decaying stages. One's roof finally collapsed about two years ago, and as you can see this roof isn't long for the world either.
My Flickr friend Marty Hogan added this interesting piece of history to the home:
This was Nathan Bradley's farm. The nearby Bradleyville locale is named after him.
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After a frenzy of activity the Keolis carmen, machinists, electricians, laborers, and cleaners have finished their work and the foreman has signed it off and this trainset is all tripped and legal and ready for the start of another day serving the citizens of the commonwealth. Shut down and quiet, it is unplugged and waiting in the still of the night on track PM1 inside the sprawling building of
MBTA's Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility, more commonly known as BET, short for Boston Engine Terminal. In just about an hour a machinist will return to start up the engine and light up the HEP and shortly thereafter a crew will board and head east a mile to North Station to start their day.
BET was the name given to the original roundhouse and shop complex that the Boston and Maine Railroad built here during its massive 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal complex that included both the new BET and Boston Garden / North Station amongst many other improvements. The MBTA opened this modern shop in 1998 and no trace of the legacy complex remains today.
It sure is nice, though, to see the Minuteman logo and maroon and gold colors return to this hallowed ground where they once reigned supreme. Recently rebuilt and repainted F40PH-3C 1030 has quickly become a favorite of railfans as the newest and quite possibly prettiest 'heritage' unit to be found just about anywhere!
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tuesday September 23, 2025
Built by convict laborers from the prison on the Island and built with stones quarried from the Island in 1872 at the north tip of the island it stayed in service until just past 1940 when it fell into disrepair and a few decades later was restored. It was designed by James Renwick, Jr. who also designed Saint Patrick's Cathedral. The lighthouse today is now surrounded by a small park.
After a frenzy of activity the Keolis carmen, machinists, electricians, laborers, and cleaners have finished their work and the foreman has signed it off and this trainset is all tripped and legal and ready for the start of another day serving the citizens of the commonwealth. Shut down and quiet, it is unplugged and waiting in the still of the night on track PM1 inside the sprawling building of
MBTA's Commuter Rail Maintenance Facility, more commonly known as BET, short for Boston Engine Terminal. In just about an hour a machinist will return to start up the engine and light up the HEP and shortly thereafter a crew will board and head east a mile to North Station to start their day.
BET was the name given to the original roundhouse and shop complex that the Boston and Maine Railroad built here during its massive 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal complex that included both the new BET and Boston Garden / North Station amongst many other improvements. The MBTA opened this modern shop in 1998 and no trace of the legacy complex remains today.
It sure is nice, though, to see the Minuteman logo and maroon and gold colors return to this hallowed ground where they once reigned supreme. Recently rebuilt and repainted F40PH-3C 1030 has quickly become a favorite of railfans as the newest and quite possibly prettiest 'heritage' unit to be found just about anywhere!
Somerville, Massachusetts
Tuesday September 23, 2025
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
St. Francis of Assissi
We visited a small handicraft shop for a halfday tour. It is well worth spending to look around – and watch carpenters, like this lovely woman, making hands-on-crafts. The variety of furniture, Buddha images, soft furnishings, 'antiques', decorations, toys, collectibles, souvenirs and memorabilia is, seemingly, never-ending. The woodwork they produced are out of this world.
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Isidore the Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (c. 1070 – 15 May 1130), was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the Catholic patron saint of farmers, and of Madrid; El Gobernador, Jalisco; La Ceiba, Honduras; and of Tocoa, Honduras. His feast day is celebrated on 15 May.
Saint Isodorus of Madrid, pictured here on a stained glass window in St Stephen's church in Wijnandsrade, The Netherlands.
On their way home
passing the luxurios LALITHA MAHAL PALACE
a place they only dream of
but will never enter.
RICE AND DHAL AWAITS THESE two
not clean sheets
a swimming pool and
room service.
that will have to wait for another lifetime
MYSORE
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Taj mahal,
staring down a female tourist.
The camera she is using is probably worth more than what a normal laborer makes in a year in india.
And of course women in india do not dress like this either.
Photography’s new conscience
I do not believe that this is still a Union Shop office since everything is abandoned but it is a great old sign and great old building in Downtown Jackson, Tennessee...and, even though this photograph was taken in 2013, the sign is still there today but considerably more faded.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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Maurizio Cattelan, the great provocateur...
Five horses which want to run (jump) headfirst into the wall.
(when shadows are even more impressive than the sculpture itself) ...
Anyone who engages with Maurizio Cattelan as an exhibition organizer never really knows what awaits them. Born in Padua in 1960 and originally a laborer, the Italian artist has made a name for himself as a rule-breaker, a provocateur, but also a player of perceptions, an intelligent art clown, and a generator of surprising and often confusing ideas.
In 1993, he provoked audiences when he rented his exhibition space at the Venice Biennale to a PR firm that was promoting a commercial product. In 2000, he surprised the audience at Zurich's Migros Museum of Contemporary Art by emptying the halls. The only perceptible work of art to be discovered was a small wax figure in a Beuysian felt suit and with Cattelan's facial features, hanging helplessly from the coat rack. And another time, he even had the door of a gallery that had announced a Cattelan exhibition bricked up.
Five Horses with Their Heads in the Wall
He wasn't quite so radical in his refusal to exhibit at the Fondation Beyeler in 2013. His works were indeed on display there in a conventional museum setting. But strictly speaking, it was originally just one work, just one horse, the sculpture "Untitled" from 2007: a taxidermied brown horse with its head stuck high up in the museum wall, its muscular body hanging helplessly and pitifully. It appears as if the horse had leaped impetuously into the wall and remained there.
Cattelan had the horse prepared in five versions (he apparently hardly ever touches it himself). Three copies are owned by various international private collections, two are exhibition copies.
Breaking the Rule
With this, Cattelan once again broke a rule in the art world, namely that exhibition copies and "originals" are never shown at the same time in the same place. This is because doing so would impair the aura of the original. Maurizio Cattelan wouldn't be himself if he adhered to this rule. The owners of his originals are aware of this, of course. And indeed, the five copies of an old work now combine to form a new, temporary group of works. However, it's difficult to say whether a single horse with its head in the wall leaves a more lasting impression than five neatly lined up next to each other.
In 2011, Maurizio Cattelan bid farewell to the art world with a large-scale retrospective entitled "All" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Of course, no one really believed him. But it must have been an exceptionally spectacular farewell exhibition, with 130 of his works, all hanging from the museum's ceiling like a giant mobile. Among them were Cattelan's most famous works, such as the Pope Thrown to the Ground by a Meteorite (first shown at the Kunsthalle Basel in 1999) and the equally famous praying Hitler figure.
The same work, which was first shown in this arrangement in Switzerland, is now in the Centre Pomdedou in Metz. It hangs higher here than it did at the Fondation Beyeler, making it even more spectacular, I think.
In my triptych, I show the proportion of height to the human figure. A homeless person has also been added here, which further irritates the viewer. And finally, the third painting demonstrates the banalization in the colorful context of the large space with the exposed building techniques typical of the centre and distracting colorful artworks. Biomorphic is contrasted with inorganic construction, which seems to be a recurring theme in the exhibition...
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Maurizio Cattelan, der große Profokateur ...
Fünf Pferde, die mit dem Kopf durch die Wand wollen.
(Wenn Schatten noch beeindruckender sind, als die Skulpturen selbst)
Wer sich als Ausstellungsmacher auf Maurizio Cattelan einlässt, weiß nie so richtig, was ihm letztlich blüht. Der 1960 in Padua geborene italienische Künstler, der ursprünglich Hilfsarbeiter war, hat sich einen Namen gemacht als Regelbrecher, Provokateur, aber auch Spieler mit Wahrnehmungen, intelligenter Kunstclown und Generator mit überraschenden und oftmals auch verwirrenden Ideen.
So provozierte er 1993, als er seine Ausstellungsfläche an der Biennale in Venedig an eine PR-Firma vermietete, die dort für ein kommerzielles Produkt warb. Im Jahr 2000 überraschte er das Publikum im Zürcher Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst mit leergeräumten Hallen. Als wahrnehmbares Kunstwerk war lediglich eine kleine Wachsfigur im Beuys’schen Filzanzug und mit Cattelans Gesichtszügen zu entdecken, die hilflos an der Garderobe hing. Und ein anderes Mal liess er die Türe einer Galerie, in der eine Cattelan-Ausstellung angekündigt war, gar zumauern.
Fünf Pferde mit dem Kopf in der Wand
Ganz so radikal verweigerte er sich anlässlich einer Ausstellung 2013 in der Fondation Beyeler nicht. Dort waren tatsächlich Werke von ihm in einem gängigen musealen Rahmen zu sehen. Doch genau genommen war es ursprünglich nur ein Werk, nur ein Pferd, die Plastik «Untitled» aus dem Jahr 2007: Ein präpariertes braunes Pferd, das mit dem Kopf hoch oben in der Museumswand steckt und dessen muskulöser Körper hilflos und jämmerlich herunter hängt. Es scheint so, als ob das Pferd ungestüm in die Wand gesprungen und dort hängen geblieben sei.
Cattelan hat das Pferd in fünf Ausführungen präparieren lassen (selber legt er ja offenbar die Hand kaum je an). Drei Exemplare befinden sich im Besitz von verschiedenen internationalen Privatsammlungen, zwei sind Ausstellungskopien.
Bruch mit der Regel
Damit brach Cattelan einmal mehr mit einer Regel im Kunstbetrieb, nämlich dass Ausstellungskopien und «Originale» eigentlich niemals zur selben Zeit am selben Ort gezeigt werden. Dies, weil damit die Aura des Originals beeinträchtigt wird. Maurizio Cattelan wäre aber nicht er selbst, wenn er sich an diese Regel halten würde. Das wissen natürlich auch die Besitzer seiner Originale. Und tatsächlich vereinigen sich die fünf Kopien eines alten Werks nun zu einer neuen Werkgruppe auf Zeit. Dabei ist aber schwierig zu sagen, ob nun ein einzelnes Pferd mit dem Kopf in der Wand einen nachhaltigeren Eindruck hinterlässt als gleich deren fünf, sauber nebeneinander aufgereiht.
2011 hat sich Maurizio Cattelan mit einer gross angelegten Retrospektive mit dem Titel «All» im New Yorker Guggenheim-Museum vom Kunstbetrieb verabschiedet. Natürlich glaubte ihm das niemand so richtig. Aber es muss sich um eine ausgesprochen spektakuläre Abschiedsausstellung gehandelt haben mit 130 seiner Werke, die allesamt wie ein riesiges Mobile von der Decke des Museums hingen. Darunter Cattelans bekanntesten Arbeiten, wie etwa der Papst, der von einem Meteoriten zu Boden geworfen wurde (1999 erstmals in der Kunsthalle Basel zu sehen) oder die nicht weniger bekannte betende Hitlerfigur.
Das gleiche Werk, das in dieser Zuammenstellung erstmals in der Schweiz gezeigt wurde, befindet sich jetzt im Centre Pomdedou in Metz. Es hängt hier höger als es in der Fondation Beyeler hing und ist damit noch spektakulärer, finde ich.
In meinem Triptychon zeige ich die Proportion der Höhe zum Menschen. Hier ist auch noch eine Obdachlose hinzugekommen, die zusätzlich Irritationen auslöst. Und schließlich zeigt das dritte Bild die Banalisierung im bunten Kontext des großen Raumes mit den centre-typischen, freigelegten Gebäudetechniken und ablenkenden bunten Kunstwerken. Biomorphes wird gegen anorganische Konstruktion gestellt, was mehrfach in der Ausstellung Thema zu sein scheint ...
Ihr könnt euch vorstellen, das 4 Bilder vorzubereiten und alle wichtigen Informationen dazu zusammen zu stellen, viel "Arbeit" erfordert ... hoffe, es findet sich jemand, der das zu schätzen weiß ;-) ...
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SADARGHAT, DHAKA
Laborers working for abyssmally low wages.
Bangladesh is listed as the 29th poorest nation in the world.
Photography’s new conscience
Laborers
work hard
long hours
in hot weather
for low pay
many live where they work
since they come from rural areas
where there is no work
New Delhi
Photography’s new conscience
The woman laborers
strong
rugged
never ceasing to work for pennies
supporting themselves
and how many others
Photography’s new conscience
Two laborers supporting the tomb cover bear witness to a scene of devotion of the lifeless Christ.Saints John and Mary Magdalene,behind the tomb,express shock and grief,while Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea,at either side,lovingly support the body on a shroud.The expressive intensity,compositional complexity,and large size of this sculpture compared to the other statuette groups by Roldán,two of which are on display in this gallery,are matched to its purpose.The artist made the Entombment as a gift to the new king of Spain,Philip V,to demonstrate her abilities to conceive and execute sculpture at the highest level. It was part of Roldana's ultimately successful petition for reappointment'"as royal sculptor Esculroea de Cámara
The was a discarded industrial sized air conditioner. It was large, about 3 feet by 4 feet, making it imposing. It was truly used up with the top row of fins actually melted. But, even in its demise, it was very potent.
El Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores, created to defend the human rights of day laborers. California Street and Park Avenue West, Denver, CO.