This image of two young boys playing with guns in public is interesting when compared to today. Today there are a lot of different photographs of children with guns, specifically violent, instead of playing it is now real in today’s society. When compared to digital photography today it may be the same subject but with different emotions and intentions. That is exactly what drew me to this photograph, is the irony of it.
Cartier-Bresson, Man and Machine, p.76; Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Man, the Image, and the World: A Retrospective, pl.146.
Agreed – it would not be seen with the kind of humor and tolerance as it was then.