Here is another photo for the urban fountain photo challenge. This is a photo of the Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Square Philadelphia. Designed by Alexander Calder in 1924, the figures are of Native Americans meant to symbolize the three major waterways around Philadelphia. The Delaware River is represented as a man, the Schuykill River by a woman, and the Wissahickon Creek as a girl.
Several thoughts came to mind when we saw this particular photo challenge. After some consideration, we ended up going back to a subject that we did a post on not that long ago, Native American dancers. Obviously the photograph is from pre-digital days, so the quality is probably not what you’re used to for most of our posts, but that doesn’t make it any less poignant as far as we’re concerned. Their dance combines nature, history, culture in a rhythmically mesmerizing swirl that is truly hypnotizing.
