Steve Schapiro - Boy with Pepsi, Arkansas, 1961

Digital black-and-white printing with glossy lamination. Hot-surface lamination. Old editing copy Misomex (machine for the reproduction of film or CTP files - Computer to Plate - to impose offset plates).
SERAG printer.
Format 14 x 21 cm, glued to cardboard 24 x 30 cm.

Arkansas in the 1960s. A boy proudly holding in his hand his bottle of Pepsi. In 1961, at the age of 25, Steve Schapiro went to Arkansas to photograph a refugee camp. He later showed the photos to an editor of LIFE magazine. The difficult situation of the migrants moved him: the exhausting work, the low wages, and above all the fate of the migrant children, constantly on the move with little hope of receiving a decent education.
He spent four weeks in Arkansas and, upon returning to New York, after developing the film, he discovered that his photographs conveyed what he hoped. A small Catholic magazine, Jubilee, published “The Migrants” as his first photographic reportage, devoting eight pages to it; and The New York Times chose one of the photos for the cover of its Magazine section.