


Peter F. Neumeyer
Profesor emérito, Universidad del Estado de San Diego.
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Children of Time - The twelve artfully enhanced snapshots of children playing, singing, having friendly exchanges, or pathetically abandoned in an orphanage, all say more than their intervening thematic titles suggest. Each photograph is superimposed upon a whole or partial map of Poland, with remarkable sensitivity to the expressiveness of light and shadows, and with a striking illusion of depth. This is the space, this is the time past (just before the German invasion), out of which these children appear. And each photograph, by its technically edgy enlargement, suggests to us now a fragile and fleeting reality of an era just on the brink of memory. What became of these children, and where did they go in a time and in a land of exiles, these illustrations ask of the viewer. We perhaps recognize Sara Neumeyer herself in several of the pictures, and thank her for evocative portraits from a specific locale and from an era that forever changed our world.
Peter F. Neumeyer
Peter F. Neumeyer
Professor emeritus, San Diego State University
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