May Day is my day..., a photo from Zachodniopomorskie, West

Photographer's Note

Clean shaved. White shirt. Red tie. A fedora hat.

Splendid day for happiness - isn't it ? It's your day, my good man.
They've given you a red ribbon to put it upon your sleeve.
They've made you responsible for watching those anti-social elements with the cameras, who take pictures of our glorious, thanksgiving parade without written permission.
And surely enough HE DID his duty! He had earned their trust.
He asked me three times about my name and who I am working for. And every single time he pulled out his little notebook and wrote something down.
The manifestation of love for our leaders went smoothly and very peacefully. There were no ( yet, very expected) interruptions from the agents of CIA, FBI, Neo-Nazis, Zionists and other bourgeois circles of 'you know who' !!

Several months later an unknown electrician, armed with the sticker of Virgin Mary Of Jasna Gora, in his lapel - had jumped over the entrance gate of the Gdansk' shipyard, and since then nobody knows what actually happened to this giant portrait that used to hang down on the building wall, high above the crowd of the people, who were happily marching towards the bright future.

May your May Day be a funny May day!

Many thanks for viewing (*_*)

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isabela_sor (47748) 2009-04-30 21:49 [Comment]

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faubry (35447) 2009-05-01 0:48

hello george, deep and powerful portrait george, good frame also, impressionnant with lenine face on the wall....
have a good day
francine

michelloupis (0) 2009-05-01 2:42

Hello George,

An important picture with an important note. Thanks.

Superb documentary shot of a forgotten (forgotten?) age that will someday somehow in some clean shaved disguise strike again. Fabulous composition that gives me the creeps.

Enjoy your May First :-)

n.

bantonbuju (51815) 2009-05-01 14:55

"on duty"... wlasnie... odnosze wrazenie, ze jego zyciowa szansa jaka dostal od ustroju to - odegranie sie na kulakach, "panach", yntelygentach i takim tam innym elementom wywrotowym...

w zamian - bibulka tytoniowa, garsc (30) srebrnikow i takie tam...

samo zycie...

(pamietam to zdjecie dobrze "z tamtych lat")

j.

Clairedelune (4923) 2009-05-02 11:25

In December 2006, I had written (mostly) this:
You were fearless and daring, isn't it? The kind of courage that is hard to find in our comfortable societies? Maybe. But let me live in that so-called comfortable society where I can do photography without having somebody writing my name in a little notebook.
This face is amazing. I thought you can find this kind of face only in film with a lot of makeup... The symbols on the buildings... that speaks so much. I read the answer to Narayan. That story about the eagle without a crown is just amazing!
I think after seeing this photo, nobody could doubt that you are one of the best photographers on this site.
Claire
(I may not always understand your photos, dear George. I live in a comfortable society, with food, with work decently paid, with family and friends, with democracy, with freedom of speech, and so on... Please, forgive my ignorance...)

Hope you still forgive me........................

What a face! What a face! You were hell of a good photographer! With "guts"...

pastadog (13111) 2009-06-06 11:44

How many photos of this historical importance are passing in front of our eyes on daily basis ???

Were you aware of the historical importance of this photo when you took it?

I believe you were.

How do I know? Because of the inclusion of Mr. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in the compo.