Bob Adelman, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, 1963. Gelatin silver print. © Bob Adelman
“The police and firemen used a brute show of force to try to stop the ongoing demonstrations. It didn’t work on this day. Rather than fleeing, the protestors hung on to each other and were able to stand up to the full fury of the water, though not without casualties. I have never witnessed such cruelty. There was almost as much moisture behind the lens as in front.”
The motion that is captured in this photograph is incredible. It gives a real sense of a moment in time.
There is also a visual sense of balance shown through the arms of the two men being raised up
at the same angle but in different parts of the crowd. The one man in the front is in almost
extreme focus while the others fade into the mist all the way to the very background of the photograph.
This provides us with a feeling that perhaps this man in leading the movement and also visually
lends our eyes a place of focus.
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