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Photography • Objects • posted on Aug 05, 2007

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A photo of a statue in the Brooklyn Museum of Art. (B&W done in Photoshop) Hiram Powers's "Greek Slave" (1869). One of the most popular American statues of the 19th century, Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave , portrays a Greek girl captured by the Turks and put up for sale in a Middle Eastern slave market. The sculptor said of his work: "As there should be a moral in every work of art, I have given to the expression of the Greek slave what trust there could still be in a Divine Providence for a future state of existence, with utter despair for the present, mingled somewhat of scorn for all around her . . . It is not her person but her spirit that stands exposed." Powers made six versions of the statue, differing somewhat in the shape of the slave's chains and other details.