a single bird descending against a concrete wall
By pairing iconic imagery with the exact words of the people who mixed the toxic chemicals
presenting the soldiers' faces in a state of stark vulnerability
The Door County Innovations: The publication details Jachna's highly experimental work produced in Door County
seeking out "prohibited" subject matter under the mentorship of Lisette Model
Scherman, David E. & Richard Wilcox. Literary England: Photographs of Places Made Memorable in English Literature. Untitled (Friends of Photography) a single bird descending againstRandom House, 1944. Preface by Christopher Morley. [Book developed from picture essay that appeared in LIFE Magazine on June 14, 1943. Photos by David Scherman with literary excerpts by John Keats, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, et al. For information on Scherman, see the interview in John Loengard, LIFE Photographers: What They Saw.] VG