Bloody Saturday

The photo I chose to analyze is "Bloody Saturday" by H.S. Wong. The photograph was taken in 1937 and is black and white and depicts a baby, maybe one or two, dirty, alone, and crying sitting on the edge of railroad tracks with debris all around him. The subject of the photo is how awful and devastating the bombings in Shanghai were. The picture wasn't planned. The photographer said when he got to the South Station he saw the baby wailing while his mother laid dead on the tracks. The photo made me sad at first but the more I looked at it I got sort of angry that this awful thing had happened to the baby and he had no control of it whatsoever. I think that my reaction was exactly what the photographer was hoping for, to spark interest in people and open our eyes to the havoc war is causing.