Irvin Cruz
Toni Frissell "Abandoned Boy"
1945
The image saddens me. The young child, who didn't understand the acts of war lost his family from a bombing in London. His expression shows not only the innocence but the uncertainly of not knowing of his family. With the despair and the depressing feel to it, I can't help but feel the sadness that the child felt at the time during a very dark time in the world. The way that the rubble and the debris is everywhere behind him, it shows that a young boy possibly without a clue in the world has lost everything he knew.
The image saddens me. The young child, who didn't understand the acts of war lost his family from a bombing in London. His expression shows not only the innocence but the uncertainly of not knowing of his family. With the despair and the depressing feel to it, I can't help but feel the sadness that the child felt at the time during a very dark time in the world. The way that the rubble and the debris is everywhere behind him, it shows that a young boy possibly without a clue in the world has lost everything he knew.
