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__#2. Photo__

August Sander "Eye of an eighteen-year-old young man, 1925-26"

from [| http://fraenkelgallery.com/]

I connected this photograph with the //The Bluest Eye//. It was in "Summer"

"It was in a dark, wet place, its head covered with great O's of wool, the black face holding, like nickels, two clean black eyes, the flared nose, kissing-thick lips, and the living, breathing silk of black skin. No synthetic yellow bangs suspended over marble-blue eyes, no pinched nose and bowline mouth. More strongly than my fondness for Pecola, I felt a need for someone to want the black baby to live--just to counteract the universal love of white baby dolls, Shirley Temples, and Maureen Peals."

p. 190

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