Sunday Morning (circa 1970)

A tranquil Sunday morning a long time ago. Please view "Larger". Thanks. -Jim

a scene of daily life well done :-)

excellent point of view, tones, subject and light

I see an image that appeared on so many american movies, Pleasantville for example (although the script took place in the 50's I believe), in which the world and life in general have no colors and people see in b&w with a tendency to pail sepia. I especially like this image because in my opinion it represents that failed idea of the American Dream and the perfect successful family that so many artists and especially film directors have criticized. The couple that "looks" like a couple but instead is made by two very different and distant human beings that almost dislike each other. I am not saying that the couple right there is the icon of family failure, maybe in real life it's a genuinely happy couple. I am just expressing what the specific photograph communicates to me. I see the overwhelming distance between husband and wife, sitting next to each other but not even noticing their presence or maybe trying to avoid having to uncomfortably talk to each other... Then the daughter steps in the scene and the father goes "how was school"? She says "fine" and goes upstairs while her mother, loud, screams "didn't you hear your father"? The context and the tones suggest me a situation like the above but the fact that the woman is not wearing shoes tells me that she is a "liberated" and free woman.

What is so great about this image is the fact that made me stop for a good half hour and have all these images. I am saying that it doesn't really matter to me what is the real story behind it or what is the message it should give as long as it strikes me and makes me think. Great great work.

Like a scene from Robert Frank's The Americans, this period piece reminds us baby boomers of our youth. I like the low perspective and the lighting.

Wonderful image. Excellent composition and point of view. Neat idea.

Great image and tones; I find it interesting that he is reading classifieds and she is reading the funnies...I was hoping one of them had it open to the real news of the day! I love the angle from which you took this, including her bare foot on the carpet just makes it that much more interesting and real. Very well done. Thank you for sharing this little bit of the past. :)