Artist: Diane Arbus
Date: 1962
Title: Boy with Toy Hand Grenade
The boy with a hand grenade in Central park seems no different from any other child his age; his strange face expression and posture makes us view the image different. The boy's photo is caught with a strange look on his face with one hand gripping a toy hand grenade while they other hand poses the same grip with nothing in it. To my understanding and interpretation the image represents the time period that the boy was in when young boys were drafted to go to war in Vietnam and his face seems to be uncomfortable and exasperated. This image is one of many in a series Diane Arbus took of the boy while he was at the park and this was the only image that was out of place because the rest of his images were happy and he looked to be an ordinary kid. Arbus's work seem to be a stab across American culture and she usually photographed the inhabitants of New York city. She seeks those at the edges of society and reflecting daily life.
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