Sandy Pascual
Diane Arbus, "A Child Crying"
1967, Gelatin Silver Print
This photograph is titled "A Child Crying", it was created by Diane Arbus, an American photographer who was known mostly for her photographs of people who were kept in the margins of society, by society. This particular image is a gelatin silver print, which is the term used to describe the most common process for making black and white photographs.The photograph was taken at the Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey at the 30th Annual Diaper Derby contest. Arbus wrote in a notebook in 1962, "It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or tear stained or bloody." I selected this image because the child's crying face is the focal point of this image and it is so up close that its details called my attention. It captures the moment so perfectly that I can almost feel his sadness.
