
In the wake of the USS Huntington

images that haunt us



Voula Th. Papaioannou :: Departure of an old Jewish woman for Palestine. Piraeus, Greece, 1945-1946 / src: Benaki Museum
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Cruise party, S.S. Queen, 1897 / via back-then, src: UCBerkeley http://ift.tt/2wktP6D

David Moore :: Migrants arriving in Sydney, 1966 [Galileo Galilei, a liner from Genoa, approaching the dock at the Sydney Cove passenger terminal] / src: State Library of New South Wales
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David Moore ::
Migrant Woman, 1966 / src: State Library of New South Wales
“Moore looked along the railing of the Galileo Galilei as it docked, searching for subjects. He saw ‘Apprehension, doubt, excitement and even a little fear … expressed in the faces of passengers coming to a new land’. On this elderly woman’s face was a gamut of expressions, captured in this triptych.” (quoted from source)
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