Whatzit?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I had to pick cars, traffic lights and bicycles from these images before I was able to post the bronze of two old people.

Annoying, isn't it? But, it's not an uncommon test of identity these days. Next, they'll be arming ducks to defend......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A bit more to ponder........

[webenda]

A bit more to ponder........

That was enough, I found it.


The Woman with the Handbag is a photograph taken in Växjö, Sweden on 13 April 1985 by photojournalist Hans Runesson. It depicts a 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a marching neo-Nazi with a handbag.

A local artist, Susanna Arwin, expressed desire to raise a life-sized statue of Danielsson in Växjö but in February 2015 it was decided against for two reasons, the first being that council members were concerned such a statue could be interpreted as promoting violence and the second being that Danielsson's surviving family reported that they would be unhappy with Danielsson memorialized in such a manner. To protest the decision people across Sweden began adding handbags to statues.

In September 2015, the celebrity Lasse Diding announced he had bought the statue and intended to donate it to Varberg municipality. The statue was later unveiled at Varberg Fortress but the Varberg board of culture voted in April 2016 not to accept the donation.

The statue now resides in the garden of Lasse Diding's Villa Wäring in Varberg and a second statue has been unveiled in the town of Alingsås.

What and where? One of two bronze statues of Danuta Danielsson one located in Varberg and the other in Alingsås.

[rogruth]

That looks like an attack of some kind. ???

[webenda]

That looks like an attack of some kind. ???

According to scholar Samuel Merrill, the photograph became popular because it captures what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the "decisive moment" of an action or composition, it anticipates and insinuates rather than explicitly demonstrates violence, and it depicts what seems to be a vulnerable elderly woman confronting a young archetypal neo-Nazi.
--Wikipedia

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That looks like an attack of some kind. ???

Correct.

It depicts a 38-year-old woman, Danuta Danielsson, hitting a marching neo-Nazi with a handbag.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That looks like an attack of some kind. ???

According to scholar Samuel Merrill, the photograph became popular because it captures what Henri Cartier-Bresson called the "decisive moment" of an action or composition, it anticipates and insinuates rather than explicitly demonstrates violence, and it depicts what seems to be a vulnerable elderly woman confronting a young archetypal neo-Nazi.
--Wikipedia

You left out an important detail: Her mother had been imprisoned in Majdanek concentration camp during World War II

[rogruth]

So now even the Whatzits are becoming political statements.

[webenda]

You left out an important detail: Her mother had been imprisoned in Majdanek concentration camp during World War II

Thank you. That explains her motive more than the photograph.

[webenda]

So now even the Whatzits are becoming political statements.

I want to be neutral on this and just regard it as history but I feel her anger, especially after Rufus explained why she did that.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

You left out an important detail: Her mother had been imprisoned in Majdanek concentration camp during World War II

Thank you. That explains her motive more than the photograph.

Exactly

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So now even the Whatzits are becoming political statements.

I want to be neutral on this and just regard it as history but I feel her anger, especially after Rufus explained why she did that.

A lot of bronze statues outside are political statements of some kind - may not be obvious as to what, and some may take some thought.

And it was not intended as such in this case, but just a very strong scene and bit of art.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That discussion and discernment was interesting.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That discussion and discernment was interesting.

....which make this place an entertaining place to visit and to participate in the discussions.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

True that.