“Feuerwehr (ohne Opfer)” (Fire department - no casualties)
I hate always feeling like I need to say this, but any images of “patriotic” American iconography are shared here for aesthetic reasons only, and are NOT an endorsement of my government or the myth of American exceptionalism.
Anyway, here’s a New York City Fire Department ship making pretty fountains for the Fourth of July.
For July 4th: the torch and part of the arm of the Statue of Liberty, on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Information booth at base of arm and two persons seen at railing below flame of torch. The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. #arthistory #july4th #statueofliberty
From the National Park Service: ‘In 1865, a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States. This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France. French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi supported de Laboulaye's idea and in 1870 began designing the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World."…
The arm holding the torch was completed in 1876 and shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The head an
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For July 4th: the torch and part of the arm of the Statue of Liberty, on display at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Information booth at base of arm and two persons seen at railing below flame of torch. The Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. #arthistory #july4th #statueofliberty
From the National Park Service: ‘In 1865, a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States. This monument would honor the United States' centennial of independence and the friendship with France. French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi supported de Laboulaye's idea and in 1870 began designing the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World."…
The arm holding the torch was completed in 1876 and shown at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. The head and shoulders were completed in 1878 and displayed at the Paris Universal Exposition. The entire Statue was completed and assembled in Paris between 1881 and 1884. Also in 1884, construction on the pedestal began in the United States…
On October 28, 1886, the statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World" was officially unveiled. The day's wet and foggy weather did not stop some one million New Yorkers from turning out to cheer for The Statue of Liberty. Parades on land and sea honored the Statue while flags and music filled the air and the official dedication took place beneath the colossus "glistening with rain." When it was time for Bartholdi to release the tricolor French flag that veiled Liberty's face, a roar of guns, whistles, and applause sounded.’
People take photographs as the Statue of Liberty is seen at sunset through haze caused by smoke from Canadian wildfires, as viewed from Brooklyn, New York, August 6. REUTERS/Adam Gray
I took this picture many years ago after climbing the statue’s interior spiral staircase of over 160 narrow steps. I’m not entirely sure I can make the same climb today, so I’m glad I have this photo to remember it by.
“Farbe: Grün (keine Pflanzen)” / Color: Green (no plants)
Oxidation turned the original brown copper color of Bartholdi’s statue fully green by 1920, and she’s been green ever since.
Standard disclaimer: Any images of American iconography are shared here for aesthetic purposes only, and are not an endorsement of the actions of the nation represented.
Took a walk on the waterfront and snapped a few pictures, for as long as I could stand the freezing wind. Went home to edit, and this fraction of a photo caught my eye. This is where my mood took it — make of it what you will.
#MeerMittwoch “La Liberté éclairant le monde,” a gift from France, by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
I haven’t felt much like sharing photos of Lady Liberty in the past dark years, but maybe I can do so after yesterday’s election. The clouds gather, but still she stands.
Fuck the fascists, fuck cruelty, fuck the politics of corruption and despair. There’s life in New York yet, and we’re not going down without a fight.
#Calvin has described the figure as a “titan of innovative progress” and a “monument to American manifest destiny” that celebrates the liberating forces of #technology and #entrepreneurship.
“Standing taller than the Statue of #Liberty, our monument inaugurates a new golden age, revering creativity and the heroic nature of man,” Calvin wrote on the foundation’s website. #statueofliberty
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
French mural of #StatueOfLiberty covering her eyes in shame angers #Trump supporters
Amsterdam-based street artist Judith de Leeuw described her giant work in the northern #French town of #Roubaix, which has a large immigrant community, as “a quiet reminder of what freedom should be.”
She said “freedom feels out of reach” for migrants and “those pushed to the margins, silenced, or unseen.”
“I painted her covering her eyes because the weight of the world has become too heavy to witness. What was once a shining symbol of liberty now carries the sorrow of lost meaning,” de Leeuw wrote in a July 4 post on Facebook, when #Americans were celebrating Independence Day.
A mural depicting the Statue of Liberty covering her eyes in the northern French city of Roubaix has sparked a flurry of comments on social media over its intended swipe at US President Donald Trump's crackdown on migrants.
