Thanks for the post. With video, the photojournalism of still photography has become a lost art. Color can be so distracting. That picture gets to the heart of the matter and tells us so much. But the genius of that picture is that it expresses the misery of their circumstance, yet it captures both the dignity and humanity of the subjects, and in no way is it demeaning or degrading to the subjects.
>But the genius of that picture is that it expresses the misery of their circumstance, yet it captures both the dignity and humanity of the subjects, and in no way is it demeaning or degrading to the subjects.<
Well said. And, looking at that mother, old beyond her years, you can see what the years of hard work had done to her. That photo is one of the most powerful taken during the Dust Bowl era.
It’s hard to have much sympathy for an obese person who could not even take advantage of a free high school education, much less hold down a paying job.