Matt Friedman
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This is at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Chicago. It is a photo that I took as part of a major project documenting American memorials to interrogate and understand American public memory. (I am a historian, after all.) This isn't the best photo on the roll (by far), or even the best of that sequence of frames. I was shooting the memorial from a number of angles before taking some more carefully composed shots. As I was framing this shot, a man in his 70s walked down the stairs to the right, stopped in front of the names from 1967, placed a piece of paper on top of the plaque (you can just make it out), and stood there quietly looking at the name for a few minutes. Then, he turned and exited up the stairs to the left. I went down and looked at the note. It was a photocopy of the obituary of a young man from the Chicago area who was killed in action in September 1967. The man had been gazing at his name on the wall. Its not a great photo. But it's a great photo. You know what I mean?
It's Ilford Delta 400 at box speed, Minolta X-700 with a 50mm Minolta MD Rokkor 1:1.4. I think this is at f16, 1/125. Ilford DD-X, Canon Canoscan 9000F II.
It's Ilford Delta 400 at box speed, Minolta X-700 with a 50mm Minolta MD Rokkor 1:1.4. I think this is at f16, 1/125. Ilford DD-X, Canon Canoscan 9000F II.
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