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Automobile of migrant cherry pickers

Wife of migrant fruit picker

Wife of migrant fruit worker

Migrant fruit workers during slack season in between cherries and berries

Fruit tramp

Old barn used as bunkhouse for migrant fruit pickers from the South (this grower employs only unmarried Negroes)

Camp of migrant fruit workers in field on outskirts of town

Camp of migrant fruit workers

Family of migrant fruit workers camped along railroad tracks

Boy picking strawberries

Picking strawberries

Strawberry picker

Young strawberry picker

Migrant strawberry picker

Children of migrant cherry pickers

Child of migrant cherry pickers

Child of migrant berry pickers

Migrant farm workers

Family of migratory workers from Texas in roadside camp

Migrant woman from Arkansas in roadside camp

Migrant woman from Arkansas in roadside camp

Migrant child from Arkansas in roadside camp

Cabins rented for one dollar and seventy-five cents a week by migratory fruit pickers and packing house workers
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another's grief,
And not seek for kind relief?
William Blake: On Another's Sorrow, from Songs of Innocence, 1789
3 comments:
its like time makes ours a whole different planet but always the same species. same grief- different scenes.
Portrait photography always makes me think of loss. It is just moment frozen in time.
In light of what we were saying the other day, Tom, did you know that Thomas Guinzburg died earlier today?
Of course, I am presuming you knew him quite well.
gamefaced and Ray,
Amen, amen.
Same species, same grief, loss upon loss, each frozen in time, the planet going on somehow, more or less regardless.
(By the by Ray, my ten years with the Paris Review were voluntary absentee labor, from England, France, California... somewhat on sufferance, one might say. Mr. Guinzburg is not to be blamed. At any rate one hopes his passing was peaceful, and is encouraged to think it might have been, if only by the report that he was listening to a golf tournament at the time the angel arrived.)
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