It may be work, it may be play, it may be near, it may be away. So here is the challenge - to shoot and post one photograph a day on this site. These photographs are a kind of diary of things I find interesting. I am also thinking that there will be days when I am unable to shoot, so on those infrequent occasions, I will post a photograph done on another day, but one that still feels important to me. - Ken Spencer
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Horace Greeley
I came up out of the subway the other day, walked through City Hall Park, and here was this statue. I was taken by the scene because not only was the statue dark, but the background of bare trees and the dark building behind it as well. I thought it was more interesting that it would have been if there had trees with leaves behind him, for instance. I will confess to not knowing who the statue was - I had to walk up to it to read the title. Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune, and changed the nature of newspaper journalism: "The Tribune set a new standard in American journalism by its combination of energy in news gathering with good taste, high moral standards, and intellectual appeal. Police reports, scandals, dubious medical advertisements, and flippant personalities were barred from its pages..." [Nevins in Dictionary of American Biography (1931)] Wow! How's that for an amazing concept!
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