"Photograph"
Weezer
Weezer (The Green Album)
2001
When we think of the photos that have moved us over the years, a panoply of images flood the mind. The young, impossibly striking Afghan girl on the cover of National Geographic.
Or the Vietnamese monk Thich Quang Duc setting himself on fire in protest of the madness around him.
And of course who can forget the raising of the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima, six weeks of fierce battle finally resulting in the hard won victory of three strategic airfields.
But doubtless when one ponders the most important photographic image of all time, one comes back to the photo that best represents man's endless struggle to maintain dominion over the beasts with whom we share this great blue sphere. One image that captures our yearn to fly and our resentment of those that can.
I write, of course, of Fabio hitting a goose with his face on a rollercoaster, and the resultant aftermath.
So doth the swan her downy cygnets save,
Keeping them prisoner underneath her wings.
Yet, if this servile usage once offend.
Go, and be free again, as Suffolk's friend.
(1 King Henry 6, 5.3.54-60)
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