Well, maybe not this particular snapshot.
That is me in front of my favorite sculpture in DC. It's called "Man Restraining Trade".
It's in front of the Federal Trade Commission. It is one of two Art Deco statues, designed by Michael Lantz. It's a rearing stallion held by a shirtless man with a kick-ass body. It is meant to symbolize the relationship between “the enormity of trade” and the government in the role of enforcer. The FTC is the "enforcer". Boo Hiss.
Jean and I passed the statue on the way to the National Gallery of Art today.
We went specifically to see a new exhibit - "The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978". I am clearly a big snapshot taker, so I wanted to see this collection of more than 200 amateur snapshots taken over nearly a century.
It was kind of fun to see how average people took snapshots as far back as the 1880s. In some ways, they were not much different than the snaps I have taken over the past 35 years. Snaps of family. Snaps of scenery. Snaps of action. Goofy snaps. Pseudo-artistic snaps.
It seems there are some similarities in how humanity approaches snapshots.
More on the exhibit here.
Sounds like a cool exhibition
Posted by: Anthony | October 28, 2007 at 06:59 AM