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(23,272 posts)joeybee12
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(5,602 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Whoever did this is a genius.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)hifiguy
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(24,046 posts)That poor word get overused, but this is spot on deserving of it!
longship
(40,416 posts)Plucketeer
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starroute
(12,977 posts)I tracked it down through Google image search.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/09/when-lady-justice-made-out-with-lady-liberty-a-gay-marriage-graphic-was-born/380023/
At the end of February 2004, New York illustrator and graphic designer Mirko Ilic had an assignment: come up with a meaningful image about gay marriage and the legal battles that were beginning to foment. Minh Uong, then the art director of the Village Voice, commissioned him to design and illustrate a cover because he had recently seen a cover that Ilic created for the New York Times Book Review, when I was art director, showing a personification of lady Justice. He requested that Ilic, who is well known for his symbolic acuity, create something with Justice as the focal point.
The title of the article was "I'd Leave the Country, but My Wife Won't Let Me, and it was about a lesbian couple and their lengthy travails prior to the time when legalizing gay marriage was gaining momentum. I didnt think the Justice image was enough because the issue was also about freedom, Ilic recalled in a recent email. I was thinking I needed to incorporate the Statue of Liberty as well, to represent the freedom part of it.
Inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedts 1945 V-J Day Life photograph capturing the moment a sailor and nurse kissed during the revelry in Times Square, Ilic thought that having an image of two ladiesLiberty and Justicekissing seemed right. He positioned statues in a similar pose to the one in that famous photo, which has had its fair share of parodies and homages, and voila! Transformation.
Stardust
(3,894 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)as at odds,
we see them as married.
And that is what defines us as LIBERALS!
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)K and Fucking R in fact!
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts). . .in New York Harbor, anyway. Well, not quite.
This is actually Minerva, Roman goddess of war and wisdom, waving to the Statue of Liberty from Battle Hill/Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn:
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a kennedy
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(3,284 posts)passnobuck
(92 posts)that's the original meaning of
L O L
Gemini Cat
(2,820 posts)What a great day!!!!!
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)chillfactor
(7,584 posts)thank you for the post!
merrily
(45,251 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)That's great.
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