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1952
GUSN-194433
Two baby carriages stand outside a Boston grocery store. A large sign stating the price of turkeys hangs immediately above the carriages.
infants
baby carriages
storefronts
commercial buildings
business (commercial function)
grocery stores
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
1 photograph
PC044
Verner Reed Photographic Collection, 1950-1972
PC044.TMP.076
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Reed, Verner, 1923-2006 (Photographer)
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Included in the exhibition, A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972.
Item
A Changing World: New England in the Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972
For many years, at the very back of Life magazine, the editors included a particularly witty photograph in the section titled "Parting Shots." This title's wonderful double entendre perfectly captures the spirit of the images selcted for this section. Many of them were shot as part of a series but work better on their own. Often bittersweet, the classic "Parting Shot" image works on multiple levels, demonstrating photography's ability to speak beyond words. Here we find the baby in the carriage below a sign reading, "Fancy Plump Northern Turkeys: Ready for the Oven." [...] The perfect parting shot combined Cartier-Bresson's idea of the "decisive moment" with a keen social wit.
-- Stomberg, John (2004) "A Changing World: New England Photographs of Verner Reed, 1950-1972."
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