Word: despairful
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Reactions to the announcement ranged from deep despair to optimism...
...like the pleas of despair," he says." There are lots of things people haven't tried...
...there is hope in the unbrokenness of youth, freshness in the ability to dream. The boy in the center does not seem to notice the despair around him; he is focused and content with his newspaper. He does not let the fact that it is crumpled and torn detract from the content which it holds. Shahn captures the life and hope of children as they embrace the world with a boldness free of despair. Shahn documents this capturing of life, at its fullest even when circumstances are at their worst. And this documentation of history takes us beyond facts...
...photography, Shahn captures something about everyday life that makes it more than a picture, but a document of personal and historical despair and triumph. Shahn gives us a taste of what life in New York was like during the Depression for ordinary people. He has an amazing way of capturing the hurt and the despair--as well as the hope and the innocence--in the hearts of the people. Walking through the show, you feel almost as if you were walking with the people in the photographs, feeling their emotions, seeing their hurt first-hand--and somehow knowing that...
...viewer is led to question, understand and empathize. Shahn's making of New York City during the Great Depression is a historical documentation of not only the physical realities, but also the realities of the soul of humanity. His works highlight the ordinary in a time of extraordinary loss, despair and, dare we say, hope...