"The most important fact in the life of the American teen boys," LIFE magazine informed its readers in an article on cover of June 1945, "is that they have to go to fight against Japan. They have responded to this perspective Stern behaving exactly as they have always behaved, engaged in very important details related to the full enjoyment of play, eat and sleep, doubtful enjoy exploring the world of men and women."
Article this topic long life - titled, simply, "Teen-Age Boys" - submitted photographs of the incomparable Nina read and came half a year after the first foray into the strange universe of adolescents in the magazine: an article of December 1944, "the teenage girls: live in a wonderful world of its own." (LIFE.com to see "the invention of adolescents: life and the triumph of the youth culture.")
That feature was killed by the same photographer who captured so neatly teens - offers more evidence that, among enormously talented and versatile photographers of the life of the 1940s, perhaps none was as adept at capturing liquid, emotionally-charged life of adolescents with quite the same fresh sensibility as the read born in Russia.
(White) male adolescent girl read photographed in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1945, life continued ironically to observe that the boys, among "still you can admire the old skills--"
The ability to swim well, to memorize names of soccer heroes, have a joke fast for the day of all small events, popular. The old weaknesses still pursue - task is done in ten minutes, mother is considered to be a lovable servant, home is only to eat and sleep. His greatest talent is endless happy skylarking. Their talk of girls, their cautious smoking, great security promised their arguments still continues.
The war that all these pictures in the shade, for the readers of life and for the children in the photographs themselves - lasted two months until U.S. aircraft dropped bombs on two Japanese cities which is suspected, few residents of 1945 Des Moines, Iowa, had heard of: Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
___________________________________________________________________________________________
No comments:
Post a Comment