Billie Holiday Photo Print 16”x 20”  Framed Photo by Gjon Mili 

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On offer here is an inspiring photo of Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” captured by photographer Gjon Mili.  It is sad that there is still a type of strange fruit which exists in our society today and that it will take many more people standing together to move us into a new future. When Holiday decided to sing “Strange Fruit”, by Abel Meeropol, she not only decided to shed light onto the violence of racism but to also say that the continuation of this violence will beget more of it. While the lyrics never mention lynching, the metaphor is painfully clear:

 

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,

 

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

 

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,

And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

 

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

 

Gjon Mili’s photo of Billie Holiday captures the intensity of this song and is an inspiration that Holiday sang such a song and Mili wanted to capture that singing for history.

 

 

Following is the wall card:

Gjon Mili

Photographer            

Billie Holiday Singing Strange Fruit

 

Photographic Fine Art Print

Framed at 16” X 20”

 

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