Mysterious Visitation
May 10th, 2008 - New York, United States
The word "mysterious" seen in this photograph is taken from the phrase "mysterious visitation of God's providence" (one of the less satisfactory explanations offered over the years for the terrible Irish famine, which killed one and a half million people between 1845 and 1852), which forms part of the two miles of text - including quotations, statistics and historical details concerning not only the Irish famine, but world hunger in general - that cover the walls of Brian Tolle's Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park City.
This photo was blogged on May 27th, 2009 on CBC Radio's Words At Large page, described as "an online destination for Canadians who love books", to illustrate a podcast of Howard Engel's mystery novel Memory Book.
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Mary Jane 2040, Frabuleuse, mustafahacalaki, mseidman, and 38 other people added this photo to their favorites.
Mary Jane 2040 (49 months ago | reply)
back tomorrow
buchanear7 (49 months ago | reply)
Nicely done...
M@ndy (49 months ago | reply)
great description and a great photo
mustafahacalaki (49 months ago | reply)
I enjoy your trip serie Tom.
Rundadar (49 months ago | reply)
quite a stunner
mseidman (49 months ago | reply)
Great work on this...I spend time at the memorial regularly, whenever we go down to the WFC and walk the Battery Park City esplanade. Never got a shot like this, though.
Mary Jane 2040 (49 months ago | reply)
This is what I was too tired to try to write this other night. you need to create a memorable term that means photographer who specialises is candid portraits of strangers engaged in observing or interacting with publicly displayed art. That's just too much of a mouthful, but It really does seem to be your forte.
Rui Palha (49 months ago | reply)
Excellent the atmosphere you got.
... Tina (49 months ago | reply)
I agree with Rui :)
°freak° [ www.masiarpasquali.it ] (49 months ago | reply)
alien invasion! eh eh eh eh
kayodeok (49 months ago | reply)
Beautiful image
falsalama (49 months ago | reply)
brilliant
cantimilla [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
cool!!!
melody am (49 months ago | reply)
fantastic!!
marineavoile (49 months ago | reply)
Came to see who it is who likes my comments on Emmanuel Smague's pics :) Glad I did, lots I like here too.
Not sure whether the mystery is blinding or the visitation so great it is going to swallow this character alive or take it away on its spaceship. In either case, it feels to me like a brainwashing attempt (the lines around the sign look like radiations from this bright light) and I want to resist this less than satisfactory explanation, as you so well put it. A powerful shot.
dibec (49 months ago | reply)
Awesome shot! The light on this is terrific. =)
edouardv66 (49 months ago | reply)
WoW :-)) Well Done :-))
1994SS [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
Great! Another good opportunity well seen!
Dr. Siouxss [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
So striking. That wall could have said absolutely nothing and this would still be a most gorgeous composition!
rg269tq (49 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Random & Creative shots, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Philosophy Photography by Brandee (49 months ago | reply)
The lighting, shadows, coolness to the image---so perfect! Seriously, wow!!
françaoemartin (slowly back) (49 months ago | reply)
A touching and spiritual shot and I discover a place that I didn't know..
Poignant et intrigant!
andyosullivan (49 months ago | reply)
love this light.
Pneumococcus (49 months ago | reply)
Wicked photo, super light! What an amazing SciFi atmosphere you captured here!
Futuristic FunkaHunk (47 months ago | reply)
beautiful
feelmystic (43 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Mystic Places, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
feelmystic (43 months ago | reply)
This looks like it's straight out of a comic book! Beautiful!!!
Depth of Life MWW (30 months ago | reply)
Bravo!
Corwin's Trumps (29 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Perspective, and we'd love to have this added to the group!