One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you’d be stricken blind. ~ Dorothea Lange
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So, Elizabeth is reading a book about the dustbowl and the great depression (one of those "little girl in America who experiences history and shares her tale with young readers" books. I don't mean to mock too much, I think they're really good at connecting kids with history).
Anyway, I got excited and started talking to her about The Grapes of Wrath and a few minutes into it I thought, "What am I doing? She's 10 years old. She's not going to put down Fannie Goes West or whatever it was called to read The Grapes of Wrath." So then I just talked to her about Dorothea Lange's photography and how she would probably recognize the image "Migrant Mother" if she saw it.
Elizabeth seemed pretty bored and a little annoyed that I had interrupted her reading, so I told her to enjoy her book and I left her alone.
Glass half full - if you were stricken blind tomorrow you wouldn't be able to see the pictures, no matter how many you took.
ReplyDeleteI mean glass half empty. First comment on the brand new blog and I screw it up.
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