Agosto 10, 2008

Who is it? Where is it?

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Another photo puzzle.

27 komento:

AllenS ayon kay ...

It's Trooper York. Why is there crime scene tape over the doorway?

Meade ayon kay ...

It's Walt Whitman, who wrote Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Are you guessing this is in Brooklyn? It's not.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I agree that it looks like Walt Whitman.

Meade ayon kay ...

In that case, it's one of the Smith cough drop brothers. Somewhere in Pittsburgh.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

I actually don't know who it is, but I know exactly where it is.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

It's Josef Stalin, in front of BHO's boyhood home in Hawaii.

rhhardin ayon kay ...

Marx's home in London.

bleeper ayon kay ...

Karl Marx, on Obama's new Presidential Seal.

Bissage ayon kay ...

It’s Jacob Marley. They’re doing construction inside so they had to move the door knocker.

He looks surprisingly healthy and serene, all things considered.

Got himself a whole new look. Luxurious hair. Kick-ass beard.

Good for him.

I guess he found a quality psychotherapist and he’s learned to move on.

John Edwards had that all worked out in advance, though, so he can stay the same.

bearbee ayon kay ...

Karl Marx, on Obama's new Presidential Seal

No, no, no..... to be shown on the proposed US currency he will use with his energy rebate program.

On the flip side will be a pic of Hugo Chavez.

Palladian ayon kay ...

It's the Ian Anderson Memorial Wall, where Anderson once suffered several broken bones and a concussion after attempting a one-legged pirouette while wheezing "Scotland The Brave" through the high registers of his flute. After lying on the ground for several hours staring up at the wall while waiting for help, he was inspired to write "Thick As A Brick".

Ron ayon kay ...

Clearly it's Jerry Garcia in front of Jerry Garcia's Waffle Mansion!

Trooper York ayon kay ...

Bearbee is correct that is Poseidon and that is Ernest Borgnine’s house in Nantucket that he paid for with the paycheck from the Poseidon Adventure.

It also looks like his wife Tova before her electrolysis.

vbspurs ayon kay ...

YAY!! We captured Saddam!

blake ayon kay ...

I don't know where it is. I don't know who it is. But, man, he looks pissed.

Actually, it looks vaguely familiar...

campy ayon kay ...

Looks like Chuck Heston as Moses to me ...

D&D ayon kay ...

In Chicago, on Dearborn near Chestnut ....I think

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

d&d, you are absolutely right. A larger view of the scene has the address over the door at the left as 833 N. Dearborn. And Google maps has that here, just south of West Chestnut.

Ann Althouse ayon kay ...

Still don't know who it is.

Robert Burnham ayon kay ...

I think the plaque portrays Tennyson, and it appears modeled after the photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron.

If it's supposed to be Whitman, it's more idealized than it would be for Tennyson.

Where did you take the photo?

Chip Ahoy ayon kay ...

That's definitely Tom Hanks.

Peter V. Bella ayon kay ...

If I am not mistaken it is the home of the photographer Victor Skrebneski.

Susan ayon kay ...

"The
bust comes from the masonry gate in front of the Newberry Estate Houses, 827-833
North Dearborn. It's taken from Adler and Sullivan's lost masterpiece Schiller
Theater, where it was one many similar visages of the giants of German culture."

Palladian ayon kay ...
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Palladian ayon kay ...

Susan is correct: it's a portrait medallion from Sullivan & Adler's demolished Schiller Building in Chicago. The building's facade featured portrait medallions of famous Germans. You can see the facade here, and zoom in on the portrait medallions. The medallion from Ann's picture was flanked on the left by (I believe) Goethe and on the right by (definitely) Beethoven. I don't know who the person in the medallion in Ann's picture is, but we know he's a revered German. Any ideas?

Here's a closer view of some of the portrait medallions in situ after the facade had been defaced.

The Schiller Building was demolished in 1961 and replaced by (what else!) a parking garage. Part of the facade was saved and was incorporated into the facade of the Second City Theater.

bearbee ayon kay ...

Thanks d&d, Susan and Palladian for tracking down info.

Image of Brahms perhaps?

Saw this quote on a researched site:

"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." Richard Nickel

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