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Fragile Light – Haikus in Response to the Photography of Roman Vishniac

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Fragile Light – Haikus in Response to the Photography of Roman Vishniac

16.06.2021 Posted In 0 comments

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Gabriel Rosenstock

Fragile Light – Haikus in Response to the Photography of Roman Vishniac

 


http://vishniac.icp.org/62641-2012.79.45

 

 

beirlín . . .
scáthanna ag teitheadh
ó scáthanna

berlin . . .
shadows fleeing
from shadows
 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62642-2012.79.46

 

 

búistéirí óga

nuacháilithe . . .

le haghaidh cogaidh

 

apprentice butchers

newly qualified . . .

for war

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62606-2012.79.10

 

 

solas

ó laethanta eile . . .

leochaileach

 

the light

of other days . . .

fragile

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/64161-mvk.982.2008

 

 

alexanderplatz . . .

scáileanna

ag dul i bhfad

 

alexanderplatz . . .

shadows

lengthening

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/64169-mvk.fp.205

 

 

long life

and happiness!

purim in berlin

 

rath oraibh

is séan!

púirím i mbeirlín

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/5093-1983.1836

 

 

bheadh sé tráthúil anois

sea, anois . . .

do bhlaosc a thomhas

 

now, yes now . . .

now would be a good time

to get your skull measured

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/63811-mvk.972.2008

 

 

ceol aisteach

lasmuigh den ardeaglais . . .

buataisí na naitsithe

 

strange music

outside the cathedral . . .

boots of nazis

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62613-2012.79.17

 

 

níl a fhios aige

cad is svaistíce ann . . .

capall oibre

 

it doesn’t know

what a swastika is . . .

work horse

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62634-2012.79.38

 

 

ag satailt

ar scáileanna a chéile . . .

leanaí beaga

 

trampling

on each other’s shadows . . .

little children

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/21972-1990.9

 

 

meáchan an domhain seo

conas é a iompar . . .

bean an phóirtéara

 

the weight of this world

how to bear it . . .

a porter’s wife

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/907-2009.108.1

 

 

i muinín na déirce . . .

laethanta is oícheanta

ag dul i bhfad

 

reduced to begging . . .

days and nights

grow longer

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/4570-1992.2002

 

 

níl aon mhaith iontu

ach chun scadáin a rapáil . . .

nuachtáin an lae inniu

 

only good

for wrapping herrings . . .

newspapers these days

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/63803-mvk.803.2008

 

 

géill do mhíorúiltí . . .

seanteanga is beocht inti

arís

 

believe in miracles . . .

an old language

comes to life again

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62599-2012.79.3

 

 

beirlín

an ríocht míle bliain . . .

smionagar

 

berlin

the thousand-year reich . . .

rubble

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/62600-2012.79.4

 

 

fuaim tholl

a gcuid coiscéimeanna . . .

daoine asáitithe

 

hollow sound

of their footsteps . . .

displaced people

 

 

http://vishniac.icp.org/63809-mvk.753.2008

 

 

Ruth Sternfeld bheag . . .

an chruinne go léir

sa chás taistil aici

 

little Ruth Sternfeld . . .

the whole universe

in her travelling case

 

 

 

Note: All images are taken from the website relating to the Exhibition Roman Vishniac Rediscovered at the International Center of Photography, New York, 18 January – 5 May 2015; downloaded from https://vishniac.icp.org/exhibition, 12 June 2021.

 



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