Monday, April 11, 2016

Saul Aguirre

Saul Aguirre

Paul Strand "women of santa anna"

Mexico, 1933

I selected this image because, this shows the struggles of Mexico in the early 1900's. While Paul Strand traveled around he later ended in Mexico, where he took the picture of the women in santa anna. This picture shows the women are poor due the lack of shoes and clothing. One of them is holding a baby, which catches my eye because it the picture shoes a bit of poverty so I feel the boy/girl will grow up with that life style. One of the older women is holding a bowl of some sort which could indicate that she might have had dinner in bit or she might be reserving or feeding the other women that appears in the image. I will also assume the women in the picture might be religious because they are wearing head scarf in plan daylight.