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Wyoming Toad 3 :: Western Soundscape
The Western Toad, part of the Western Soundscape collection
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Be as you are — Life Learning — Medium
As someone who is pretty judgmental, this is a great approach to just lettin go and a whole new way to approach Facebook 🙂
“We have this microscopic amount of time on Earth where our hearts continue to beat in our chests and our bodies allow us to move and create and love. Who has time to waste on things they don’t really like? And even more — time to waste worrying about what other people do like?
Try this — every time you find yourself starting to think something judgmental, think this instead: Good for you.” -
“Like other Civil War photographers, Alexander Gardner sometimes tried to communicate both pathos and patriotism with his photographs, reminding his audience of the tragedy of war without forgetting the superiority of his side’s cause. Sometimes, the most effective means of elevating one’s cause while demeaning the other was to create a scene — by posing bodies — and then draft a dramatic narrative to accompany the picture.”
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“This photograph became the subject of controversy because later analysis revealed that Gardner had staged the image to intensify the emotional effect it would have on the viewer—a practice not uncommon at the time. Gardner moved the corpse of the dead solider and propped up his head to face the camera. The rifle next to the soldier’s was not his own, but rather a gun that Gardner carried with him.”
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The False Heroism of a Civil War Photographer – The Atlantic
“And Brady, the celebrated war photographer, never again deliberately put himself in harm’s way.”