Diane Arbus lived and worked in New York USA in the middle of 20th century, she is well known for her pictures of strange people, like dwarfs, giants, transsexual, and circus performers. In this picture, “childe with a grenade” she transfer us in the period of the Vietnamese war, when America was sacrificing young people in a pointless war. This picture were taken in the Central Park, in the frame we see a childe around ten years old maybe younger, which is holding a toy grenade. The expiration of the boy is sawing to us that he is in the state of panic we could even say terror. His left hand that looks like a hook, his face, his skinny body predispose for an unpleasant event. The background is unfocused and figures in it seem to move towards the child with means to harm him. The whole set up presents the boy as one of the many young people that fit in the pointless Vietnamese war and die as they were in a suicide mission. Photographer like Diane Arbus succeeded with their photographs to saw to the people the cold true of the war and made to fit for a better world for them and for their children.
bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_with_Toy_Hand_Grenade_in_Central_Park
Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus. Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1972
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