TOM CLARK: Looking Down Into The Mall of America (bird's eye view)

Saturday, 13 May 2017

Looking Down Into The Mall of America (bird's eye view)

Mall of America, No. 3. Minneapolis, Minnesota.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 12 March 2017

Tragic ages are those in which subversive

Social displacements threaten a prior

Order of things, order the property

Of a ruling class, which discovers itself

Suddenly bereft of the power and

Influence it is accustomed to possess.

The moral values which formed the basis

Of this power are challenged, and

The ruinous end of the hero symbolizes

And transfigures the fall of the dying

Class itself, whose members remain

The exclusive audience for this drama.

There is no conceivable order

Of society in which this hero would

Not come to ruin, nor any conceivable

Time in which he would be happy and

Contented, and accept his fate

As historically conditioned

And not inevitable and finally

Inescapable.

In middle class drama

On the other hand the destructive blows

Of blind fate offer no satisfaction

As anything other than decoys, for

An optimistic audience that believes

In its own ultimate victory.

Gang tag garage [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 12 May 2017

From my archive, Bologna, Italy 2014: photo by Luca Bottazzi, posted 26 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Larry Cohen, 23 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Chris Malmberg, 9 May 2017

[Untitled, Tel Aviv]: photo by Ilan Burla, 10 March 2017

[Untitled, Perris, California]: photo by J Ward, 6 November 2016

[Untitled]: photo by J Ward, 28 December 2016

Untitled | by Street photographer - http://www.gabibest.com/

[Untitled, Tel Aviv]: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 4 March 2017

[Untitled, Tel Aviv]: photo by Gabi Ben avraham, 1 April 2017

Russian-Israeli World War II veterans gather for a street parade, part of Victory Day celebrations in Ashdod, Israel: photo by Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 8 May 2017

Russian-Israeli World War II veterans gather for a street parade, part of Victory Day celebrations in Ashdod, Israel: photo by Oded Balilty/Associated Press, 8 May 2017

Fabio Barone races in a Ferrari against a horse-drawn Roman chariot on the “Ben Hur” movie set at Cinecittà World amusement park near Rome: photo by Andreas Solaro/Agence France-Presse, 12 May 2017

A mural in Dover, England, by the British artist Banksy, depicts a workman chipping away at a star on the European Union flag: photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse, 12 May 2017

A mural in Dover, England, by the British artist Banksy, depicts a workman chipping away at a star on the European Union flag: photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas/Agence France-Presse, 12 May 2017

British Street Artist Banksy Creates Brexit Mural @AFPphoto: image via NBC News Pictures @NBCNewsPictures, 9 May 2017

A man uses a slingshot to hurl a stone at riot police during protests over housing in the community of Finetown in Ennerdale, a suburb of Johannesburg: photo by Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse, 11 May 2017

Demonstration against land grabbing, housing and unemployment in the Eldorado Park district, Johannesburg on May 8, 2017 @mlongari @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatch, 9 May 2017

Day of Rage. Clashes at Qalandia.: photo by Dante Sisofo, 27 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Dante Sisofo, 27 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 13 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 8 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 8 March 2017

Untitled | by Gustavo Minas

[Untitled]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 26 February 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 23 December 2016

Elderly Venezuelan protesters throw punches and yell curses at riot police blocking the latest in six weeks of demonstrations against President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government. Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 12 May 2017

Riot security forces use a pepper spray as elderly opposition supporters confront them while rallying against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Riot police with helmets and shields used pepper gas several times to control the crowd as hundreds of pensioners jostled against security lines to attempt a march from a Caracas square. Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 12 May 2017

Elderly opposition supporters cover their faces after being pepper sprayed while confronting riot security forces during a rally against President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela. Chanting "Freedom!" and "Down with Maduro!", the elderly protesters made it onto a highway but were blocked from their intended destination, the state ombudsman's office, by police with armored vehicles. A representative of the office listened briefly to their grievances on the street instead. Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 12 May 2017