Picture Assignment- Skylar Mays

This photograph was taken by H.S. Wong and shows a crying baby sitting debris right after a bombing, done by the Japanese planes, in the Shangai South Railroad Station. It was taken in 1937 and titled "Bloody Sunday". Pictures can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and to me this picture shows how you don't have to be in the front line for war to drastically affect you. It shows the families affected, or even the ones left without families. It shows the heartbreak this child has left to feel. The devastation of the city and what its going to take to recreate and rebuild the community that will most likely never be the same. One could go far enough to say the baby represents the rebirth after the mini revolution that was Bloody Saturday. Its an over simplification of the at-home war.