"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." ~ Dorothea Lange
Monday, September 12, 2011
This is a photo of a young Japanese boy, part of the first contingent of 664 residents of Japanese ancestry to be evacuated from San Francisco. It was published in June of 1942. The boy is seated, full-length, on a duffel bag, facing towards the right. It is in black and white. We feel sorry that he has to leave his home. We think Lange would've wanted us to be sorry for this young boy. His life was pretty much ruined by the war. A clear detail in the story is that he is very somber. It is extremely sad that he's being relocated.
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