2013年7月12日 星期五

歷史遺址的爭奪戰



我們的《Free Your Mind》的基礎課程,討論到“重演”的觀念:模仿歷史事件或戰役,重新演出歷史。

攝影家 Gregg Segal ,與美國內戰的重演者 (re-enactors),於歷史戰役遺址,角色扮演,重演歷史。結合兩個時空,古今對比。這些遺址因為現代發展,已失去歷史樣貌。

從當今的現況,回顧歷史,不但蒼海桑
田,更有古今錯置的突梯滑稽。

以古諷今,
1861 to 1865 的美國内戰,遭遇了當今資本主義社會。

死傷慘重的内戰,到底為何而戰呢?



Locust Grove, Va.
Confederate re-enactors pose at the Germanna Heights apartments. General Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee clashed for the first time in central Virginia on May 4, 1864, leaving nearly 100,000 casualties over the following 50 days.

同盟
軍,重演者,在GERMANNA高地公寓。
Ulysses Grant將軍 和 Robert E. Lee18645月4日首次在 Virginia中部發生衝突,在接下來的50天,留下10人的傷亡。






Spotsylvania County, Va.
Jeffro Moye, Kirkwood Hall, and Robert Lee Hodge pose outside BT's Restaurant and Lounge on Jefferson Davis Highway, formerly Old Telegraph Road, near the Massaponax Cemetery.

Jefferson Davis
公路,BT餐廳和酒廊的外面,以前的
Old Telegraph靠近Massaponax公墓附近。







Stafford County, Va.
Lars Prillaman, dressed as a Federal Zouave, brushes his teeth on part of the 1862-63 winter encampment of the Army of the Potomac.

Prillaman裝扮成聯邦軍,正在刷牙,這是1862年至1863年
Potomac的軍隊冬季營地




Spring Hill, Tn.
Confederate reenactors line up behind the fence of a housing subdivision.

同盟
軍的重演者,排列在
舊戰場,但已經是住宅區的柵欄後面








Nashville, Tn.
Juston Pope sits on the site of the Nashville battlefield. A large monument to the battle had to be moved when the interstate was built
.
Juston Pope 坐在 Nashville 戰場。州際公路開始建造時,這裡有個巨大的戰鬥紀念碑已被移走





 Perryville, Ky.
Jonathan Harris stands outside the Mr. Miser Food Mart.

Harris
前進路線受到阻礙,這裡已是商店,他只好站在
Mr. Miser 食品市場外面




Fredricksburg, Va.
Lars Prillaman and Brent Feito encounter a Honda dealership near a former Federal campsite.

Prillaman和
Feito, 遭遇到了一個 Honda 經銷店,這裡是前聯邦軍隊的營地附近





Gettysburg, Pa.
Robert Lee Hodge, Jerry Hornbaker and Tim Cole advance through the Gettysburg Cemetery. The Comfort Suites was recently built on the battlefield just a few feet from the graves.

三人前進通過 Gettysburg 公墓。旁邊是舒適套房建立在戰場上,距離墳墓只有幾英尺






 

Cedar Creek, Va.
Lars Prillaman walks on the site of the battle of Cedar Creek. The Carmeuse Lime & Stone intends to expand its mine to the battlefield.

Prillaman
Cedar Creek戰場遺址,現在已是石灰礦工廠。Carmeuse 公司打算擴大其石灰礦山


Winchester, Va.
Robert Lee Hodge resting under his "shebang".
Hodge 在戰場遺址,躺
在他家當上休息。旁邊站立的是現在的居民。





Gettysburg, Pa.
Charles Hawley gets a bite to eat at General Pickett’s Buffet. The mural behind Hawley depicts the collapse of the Confederacy.

Hawley到
General Pickett 的自助餐吃東西。
身後的壁畫描繪的是:烽火連天,聯軍的瓦解




 

Fredricksburg, Va.
Sam Harrelson in a storefront of Civil War memorabilia on Caroline Street, where Federal troops once looted residences and businesses in December 1863.

Harrelson 站
Caroline
的店面櫥窗,這裡曾經有一次,聯邦軍隊洗劫居民和商家,1863年12月內戰大事記。




 

Perryville, Ky.
Jonathan Harris and Blake Stewart playing cards at a gas station on the outskirts of town, near the Perryville battlefield.

在一個加油站,
打牌小鎮的郊外靠近Perryville戰場





Franklin, Tn.
Juston Pope and Patrick Landrum sit in front of a Domino's Pizza slated to be bulldozed as part of a recent resurgence in battlefield preservation in the area.

坐在
Domino比薩商店前面
這裡即將被推土機推平,這是近來該地區戰場保存運動的成果。








Spotsylvania County, Va.
Robert Lee Hodge sits on picket duty near the Old Telegraph Road. In the winter of 1862-63, over 40,000 Confederates were encamped here. To pass the boredom in camp, great snowball fights would erupt, including one that was so violent that snowball fights were banned.

Hodge
是義務糾察隊員,坐在
Old Telegraph路附近。1862年到1863年期間的冬季超過40,000同盟軍裡紮營。為了打發無聊的陣營生活,爆發大規模雪仗,非常猛烈,因此打雪仗被禁止。(背後是購物商城)





Chattanooga, Tn.
Steve Evans sits underneath a monument to the 46th Pennsylvania Infantry at Orchard Knob. Only about 5% of the battlefield at Orchard Knob is preserved, including this hill.

Evans
坐在
Pennsylvania 州,第46步兵團的紀念碑下面,在Orchard Knob。這裡的戰場,只有大約5%被保留,包括這個山丘




Nashville, Tn.
Juston Pope walks on the site of the Nashville battlefield, only 1% of which is officially protected.

Pope 走在
Nashville 戰場,這裡遺址只有1%獲得正式保護。





Kernstown, Va.
Confederate horseman Todd Kern rides over the site of the second Kernstown battlefield, where in 1864 future presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley fought for the Union.

同盟
軍的騎兵,走在第二Kernstown的戰場,1864年,
未來的總統Rutherford B. Hayes William McKinley,爭奪聯盟的軍權。







2013年7月4日 星期四

超現實景觀 - 阿拉伯聯合大公國 (by a freelance photographer in Toronto, Philip Cheung)



Shifting Sands:


Surreal Landscapes of the United Arab Emirates

 

 

 






 A road on the outskirts of Dubai.    
杜拜郊外的一條公路上。








 A cleaning person at the Ice Land Water Park in Ras-Al Khaimah, an Emirate in northern UAE.    
水上公園的清潔人員阿聯大公國北部









A trash can in a restroom at Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi. 
Zayed 體育城 廁所 垃圾桶







A portrait of the late Sheikh Zayed, the founder of the United Arab Emirates, on highway E-11 in Dubai.  
杜拜 E-11高速公路上阿拉伯聯合
大公的創始人已故的Sheikh Zayed的肖像







A laborer rests in an abandoned lot in the Al-Satwa neighborhood of Dubai.
勞動者休息,杜拜附近,一個廢棄的地方







A red carpet prior to the arrival of VIPs at a groundbreaking ceremony at the proposed Nuclear Plant in Braka in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi.
貴賓們了奠基儀式的紅地毯在擬建的核電廠,阿布扎比西部地區






Dinosaur statues at the abandoned project site of the Falcon City of Wonders in Dubai.
恐龍雕像廢棄工程現場杜拜獵鷹市。








Men relax on a bench at the corniche in Fujairah.
男人放鬆的坐在長凳上,在富查伊拉 Corniche