The eyes of a frightened child battered in all of her feminine grace and glory.
In other pictures he took at the time he strove to capture the mundane life of people, particularly children, battered by history but trying to live normally.
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The village in Britain where I grew up in the 1950s was a microcosm of the world: all human life was there, including an alcoholic wife-beater (said wife, on a bad night, would run with her children to the telephone kiosk for refuge); a child-battering mother; and a father who sexually abused his daughter.
The searing heartbreaking pictures of children being battered and tossed about by powerful fire hoses and attacked by police dogs appeared on front pages around the country and world and helped turned the tide of public opinion in support of Dr. King's local and the national civil rights movement's fight for justice. .
I suppose the only people losing sleep would be the women, who'd still be without a responsible male figure to help raise all the children spawned from their baby batter.
Amor fati is tough to take, of course, if you are a drowning child, or a battered wife, or a shell-shocked young man, or a terrified mother calling for your baby in the rubble of the blitz, all of whom and more besides make up the lives captured, however fleetingly, in Life After Life.
And battered children often grow up to be battering adults.
Her father was abusive, battering his wife and his children, until Sidle's schizophrenic mother, Laura, killed him, in 1984.
