Es ist ein richtig schönes Projekt, das die Londoner Mary Evans Picture Library ins Leben gerufen hat: den "Poems and Pictures Blog - Poems inspired by images from our collection". Natürlich - oder: leider nur - in englischer Sprache.
Die Idee ist selbsterklärend: Fotografien oder Gemälde aus der Sammlung der Agentur dienen als Inspirations-Quelle für Lyrik, beide werden gemeinsam vorgestellt. Hier ein kleines Beispiel, wie die "Kombination" läuft.
Mr Churchill rung down by a Suffragette’s bell
von Lorraine Mariner
I did not believe in him
and he did not believe in me.
He preached to the workers,
I was born silenced,
[caption id="attachment_4023" align="alignnone" width="800"] A photograph of Winston Churchill addressing a lunchtime meeting of workmen at a large factory in Dundee, Scotland, as Liberal candidate in the Dundee by-election. Miss Dorothy Molony, an Irish suffragist and member of the Women's Freedom League, arrived in a carriage and drowned the speaker's voice by repeatedly ringing a a handbell, stating that he should not be allowed to speak until he had apologised for some recent remarks he had made about women politicians. Date: May 1908[/caption]
Die Idee ist selbsterklärend: Fotografien oder Gemälde aus der Sammlung der Agentur dienen als Inspirations-Quelle für Lyrik, beide werden gemeinsam vorgestellt. Hier ein kleines Beispiel, wie die "Kombination" läuft.
Mr Churchill rung down by a Suffragette’s bell
von Lorraine Mariner
I did not believe in him
and he did not believe in me.
He preached to the workers,
I was born silenced,
[caption id="attachment_4023" align="alignnone" width="800"] A photograph of Winston Churchill addressing a lunchtime meeting of workmen at a large factory in Dundee, Scotland, as Liberal candidate in the Dundee by-election. Miss Dorothy Molony, an Irish suffragist and member of the Women's Freedom League, arrived in a carriage and drowned the speaker's voice by repeatedly ringing a a handbell, stating that he should not be allowed to speak until he had apologised for some recent remarks he had made about women politicians. Date: May 1908[/caption]
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