There are two children standing in
the city street, who stand under an awning of some sort. One of the children is
taller than the other, and they are both dressed in There is a crowd in the
distance and a man in the rightmost corner, away from the crowd and the
children. The building closest to the children appears darker than the rest of
the scene. The focus of the camera is on the children because of how the light
is presented in the picture. The farther the scene is in the image, the lighter
and more faded it looks. The buildings nearby are made of bricks and are at
least three stories tall.
As the
caption says, this takes place in Harlem during the summer of 1943. The
children appear to be abandoned, based on how closely they stand together. Gordon
dealt with the death of his mother when he was young, so these children may be
orphaned. The photo itself appears to serve as a precursor to the Harlem Race
Riots that took place in 1943, as the date shows that this was taken about two
or three months before those riots began. The children stand under the awning
almost as if it protects them from the outside world—far away from the crowd that
they’re staring into.
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