Picture This: Caught Our Eyes: Playing with Shadows
Caught Our Eyes: Playing with Shadows By Barbara Orbach Natanson Reference Librarian Ryan Brubacher added this photo by Toni Frissell to our "Caught Our Eyes" wall for sharing pictures from the collections with our colleagues, noting that it had caught her eyes again . She recalls encountering it first because it was one of the hundreds of photos featured in the landmark "Family of Man" exhibition that Edward Steichen organized for the Museum of Modern Art in 1955, which has been the subject of much subsequent scholarship. But changing circumstances allowed her to view the image with new eyes: I'd seen this image before, but not since being a mother of a young boy. The exploration of shadow was very true to my own son's explorations, but also I was moved by the way Frissell frames him on the infinite sand to highlight how small he seems even when he is tryin...
