The viewer/reader/listener takes an eminently subjective position on any work of art; I liked SKB's comment about not forgetting the Holocaust-deniers, etc., and I appreciate your comments questioning the images' posting to this list, but to me these photos do not deserve any attempts to banish them from memory. Somehow I think the photographer would agree.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jansy <jansy@aetern.us> wrote:
Steve Norquist: The color stills communicate the tragedy, especially the deluded enthusiastic youngsters  unaware of their own doom, in ways old History Channel footage and other media do not.  By the old adage about a picture being "worth" 1000 words, these are at least a short novel.

JM: Thanks for the indirect correction ("enthusiastic").
 
Images are double-edged and the short-novel you mention has yet to be written (According to novelist John Fowles "images are eminently tyrannical." - unfortunately I cannot remember where he said that). 
VN once stated: "Down, Plato, clown, good dog.  An  image  depends  on  the  power  of association,  and  association  is  supplied  and  prompted  by memory...When we speak of a vivid individual recollection we are paying a compliment not to our capacity  of  retention but to Mnemosyne's  mysterious  foresight  in having stored up this or that element which creative imagination may want  to  use  when combining  it  with later recollections and inventions. In this sense, both memory and imagination are a negation of time." (the present quote, omitting Fido, came from the internet, related to Nabokov's interview. (06) Wisconsin Studies [1967] -www.kulichki.com/moshkow/.../Inter06.txt - ) *

* Actually the sentence I was looking for (also
related to Plato's Republic, I suppose, following another comment in S.O) is:
"I detest Plato, I loathe Lacedaemon and all Perfect States. I weigh 195 pounds." ( from  The Nabokov-Wilson Letters: Correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, 1940-1971, in a dramatic dialogue adapted by Terry Quinn from the texts of the collected letters  Issue 157, Winter 2000, Paris Review. I have no access to the book (SO) right now, only internet unreliable or variant sources!
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