“La Jeune Fille a la Fleur,” a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.
You can imagine a world without war? Where only there was peace? Weaponless, or where changed by flowers? Well, this world doesn’t exist. We live in a world where we are terrified of any war or anything.
In this photo we can see a woman on the point of planting a flower in the bayonet of a soldier. This woman could be only seeking peace in their country because they must be in war. In the left we can see a lot of soldiers with his bayonets, helmets and with ensemble of their country. In the background we can’t see clearly but must be there are a lot of people, looking this woman with a flower in here hands. Could be the woman is praying before placing the flower in the bayonet, for that war ends.
When I see this photo I thought about all the people who died in any war, and I thought that was the reason why this woman wanted peace. Because she must be also thought about these people and tried to stop it.
Flowers and Weapons
"La Jeune Fille a la Fleur"
Marc Riboud born 24 June 1923 in Lyon, France) is a French photographer. Riboud was born and went to the lycée in Lyon. He photographed his first picture in 1937, using his father's Vest Pocket Kodak camera. As a young man during World War II, he was active in the French Resistance from 1943 to 1945. After the war, he studied engineering at the École Centrale de Lyon from 1945 to 1948.
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