The 2014 Your Favorite Photographs Exhibition Part 4
Josiane Keller, View Also My Other Artwork, USA
Richard Bram, “Ice Cream Bars”, New York City, NY
Bruce Morton, elbows and other such things – texting, Forgottonia, IL
Michael Sakasegawa, Kettle Corn, San Diego, CA
Gabriela Farias, En su lugar, Chicago, IL
Sarah Moore, Chasing, Missoula, MT
Scott Lerman, LIQUID Figure, NY
Jay Turner Frey Seawell, Gate National Mall, Washington DC
H. C. Turk, Ice 1, Rome, GA
Gary Schatan, Silver Crystal Sky, Sonoma, CA
Marisa Portolese, Arden, Toronto Island, Canada
Missy Ziebart, Human Behavior, Milwaukee, WI
Maggie Meiners, Truths, Evanston, IL
Sara Macel, Self-Portrait at Sunrise, Hollywood, FL
Ron Cillizza, Second Street view from walking trail bridge, Manchester New Hampshire
Santiago Vanegas, The Truth Went Viral, LA
Kory Jean Kingsley, Anna, Savannah, GA
Charles Mintz, Ernie, Cleveland, OH
Raina Stinson, Alluring, Portland, OR
Randy Karg, Volunteering at the local shelter, Clarinda, IA
Alyssa Minahan, No. 20, Chestnut Hill, MA
Joey Potter, Blurred Lines, Decatur, GA
Molly Lamb, Summer Storm, Jackson, MS
Susan Keiser, In Memory’s Dream No.22, Ossining, NY
Jen Frase, rainbow, Rancho Mirage, CA
Kevin Q. Gray, Fair Morning, Morris, NY
Bob Avakian, “Chatham Light”, Chatham, MA
Henry Horenstein, Clown, The Cenci, Rome, IT
Dominique Chen, Moon Light, Brisbane, Australia
Don McKenna, Huangshan Mountains, China
Sheryl Hess, Polar Bear Bubbles, St. Paul, MN
Mitsu Yoshikawa, A Blind Man, San Francisco, CA
Carl Shubs, Dorian Speaks – 1, Los Angeles, CA
Lauren Brewer, The Impossible Koo – Youngjun Koo 2014, New York, NY
Carol Erb, Big Red Dots, Los Angeles, CA
Aoife Shanahan, Rays, Boston, MA
Frauke Langguth, Rainbow Warrior, Berlin, Germany
Vicki Hunt, After Five, Paris
Laura Glabman, The Lone Rock, Big Water, UT
Jennifer Romero, Seeping Window, Chihuahua, Mexico
Eleonora Ronconi, Capilla , Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diane Cockerill, Trio, Los Angeles, CA
Jane Paradise, After the Paddle, Barclona
Jerry Downs, The Dance, San Rafael, CA
Michael Seeley, Buoy in the Sebastian Inlet, Sebastian, FL
Kasia Jedrych-Waniek, The Supper, Warsaw, Poland,
Don Heisz, Two Percent Milk, Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada
Heather Ross, Moving Through Time, Leadville, CO
Charlotte Roberto, Emerging, Pecos, NM
Jennifer Rapinchuk, Dogs Looking through Gate, Cerrillos, NM
Maria Alejandra Mata, Where It Hurts, Boston, MA
Mark Indig, Takeoff, Oakland, CA
Tom Parker, Metal Mountains, Southampton, UK
Tom Hricko, Table, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
James Yu, Boy in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Gabriele Harhoff, Untitled, Phetchaburi, Thailand
Quenby Sheree, Gecko, Maitland, FL
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![In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, four members of the United Klans of AmericaÑThomas Edwin Blanton Jr.,Herman Frank Cash, Robert Edward Chambliss, and Bobby Frank CherryÑplanted a minimum of 15 sticks of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, close to the basement.
At approximately 10:22 a.m., an anonymous man phoned the 16th Street Baptist Church. The call was answered by the acting Sunday School secretary: a 14-year-old girl named Carolyn Maull. To Maull, the anonymous caller simply said the words, "Three minutes", before terminating the call. Less than one minute later, the bomb exploded as five children were present within the basement assembly, changing into their choir robes in preparation for a sermon entitled "A Love That Forgives". According to one survivor, the explosion shook the entire building and propelled the girls' bodies through the air "like rag dolls".
The explosion blew a hole measuring seven feet in diameter in the church's rear wall, and a crater five feet wide and two feet deep in the ladies' basement lounge, destroying the rear steps to the church and blowing one passing motorist out of his car. Several other cars parked near the site of the blast were destroyed, and windows of properties located more than two blocks from the church were also damaged. All but one of the church's stained-glass windows were destroyed in the explosion. The sole stained-glass window largely undamaged in the explosion depicted Christ leading a group of young children.
Hundreds of individuals, some of them lightly wounded, converged on the church to search the debris for survivors as police erected barricades around the church and several outraged men scuffled with police. An estimated 2,000 black people, many of them hysterical, converged on the scene in the hours following the explosion as the church's pastor, the Reverend John Cross Jr., attempted to placate the crowd by loudly reciting the 23rd Psalm through a bullhorn. One individual who converged on the scene to help search for survivors, Charles Vann, later recollected that he had observed a solitary white man whom he recognized as Robert Edward Chambliss (a known member of the Ku Klux Klan) standing alone and motionless at a barricade. According to Vann's later testimony, Chambliss was standing "looking down toward the church, like a firebug watching his fire".
Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14, born April 18, 1949), Carol Denise McNair (age 11, born November 17, 1951), Carole Robertson (age 14, born April 24, 1949), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14, born April 30, 1949), were killed in the attack. The explosion was so intense that one of the girls' bodies was decapitated and so badly mutilated in the explosion that her body could only be identified through her clothing and a ring, whereas another victim had been killed by a piece of mortar embedded in her skull. The then-pastor of the church, the Reverend John Cross, would recollect in 2001 that the girls' bodies were found "stacked on top of each other, clung together". All four girls were pronounced dead on arrival at the Hillman Emergency Clinic.
More than 20 additional people were injured in the explosion, one of whom was Addie Mae's younger sister, 12-year-old Sarah Collins, who had 21 pieces of glass embedded in her face and was blinded in one eye. In her later recollections of the bombing, Collins would recall that in the moments immediately before the explosion, she had observed her sister, Addie, tying her dress sash.[33] Another sister of Addie Mae Collins, 16-year-old Junie Collins, would later recall that shortly before the explosion, she had been sitting in the basement of the church reading the Bible and had observed Addie Mae Collins tying the dress sash of Carol Denise McNair before she had herself returned upstairs to the ground floor of the church.](http://lenscratch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/001-16th-Street-Baptist-Church-Easter-v2-14x14-73x52.jpg)
