Spectators

It's impossible to know the emotions of these women as they gaze over the fence at the amusement park. Curiosity? Longing? Childhood reminiscence?

Photo by Fenno Jacobs. Southington, Connecticut. 1942.

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Light on White

Shadows and textures.

Photo taken by Arthur Rothstein in New Hampshire, 1936.

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