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JFK Memorial - Dallas
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Uploaded: 08/02/08 2:28 AM GMT
JFK Memorial - Dallas
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John F. Kennedy Memorial
Market Street/Commerce Street
Dallas, Texas,USA
This simple, concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Dallas 200 yards east of Deeley Plaza, where the President was assassinated. It is a space for contemplation, neither open nor closed. The 50 foot square enclosure with 30 foot high concrete walls, open in the center of the north and south, and along almost all of the base.
In the center is a black square granite slab, simply inscribed with the President's name.
"Not a memorial to the pain and sorrow of death, but a permanent tribute to the joy and excitement of one man's life." -- Philip Johnson 1970
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Thanks for sharing this...Good capture!
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"Who says the music's dead in the street?...Don't know what they talk about...I like my music wakin' up the dead...Don't tell me to turn it down!!!" - Motley Crue ... Visit Jhihmoac's Gallery
A rather unusual Memorial but I like the idea of the simplicity. Good capture, Don.
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If practice makes perfect and nobody is perfect, then why practice?
Good shot.
It is very unusual, I have never seen this before.
It is very unusual, I have never seen this before.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see ~ Marcel Proust
Yeah, it looks like a refrigerator and expresses how they feel about JFK. It does capture your attention in the scene though. Good photograph.
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"Take it upon yourselves to be more forthright in your comments"*
*Les (&purmusic)
A simple yet complex device to inspire the contemplation you spoke of.
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"Freedom is the right of all sentient beings"
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I'm going to have to agree with Cindy. :(
In a strange way it is also a comment on the future, on our time. At first I thought it was storage containers, the kind that are destined for large transport ships.
:)PJ
Great shot of it, though.
In a strange way it is also a comment on the future, on our time. At first I thought it was storage containers, the kind that are destined for large transport ships.
:)PJ
Great shot of it, though.
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We don’t make art to show someone what something looks like. All this requires is eyes (or a lens). Art is supposed to have meaning, emotion, power, or magic. Alan & Mario "FourThirds"
A great post.
Ed