Photo by Abbas
U.S.A. Louisiana. New Orleans. 1968. African-Americans resting on their porch.
This image by Abbas captures three main subjects, seemingly a family, and two additional subjects in the background. At first glance, my attention is brought to the young girl sitting on the step. Her face is at the center of the photo and many lines in the photo (the contrast of the man's pants and shirt, the vertical entry way between the two properties, etc.) lead directly to her stare. Frozen in time, the man on the left sits leisurely, smoking a cigar, and the woman on the right rests against the wall, smoking a cigarette. In the background, a man's head is seen sitting next to a woman who rests with her elbows on her knees. Her body posture makes you wonder what her story is and how exhausted she is from work and/or life as a woman of color in the US south during the 1960s. In it's entirety, the photo sits heavy with both content and meaning, reflective of the hard times in which it was taken.
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