Family Group at Stone Farmhouse No. 71, Rural Southern Europe, 1950s

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Family Group at Stone Farmhouse No. 71, Rural Southern Europe, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Five people arranged themselves in front of a crumbling render wall numbered 71 — the kind of house that had been standing since before anyone in the photograph was born and would still be standing after the youngest had grandchildren — for the specific purpose of proving to relatives somewhere else that everyone was alive and presentable. The two older women seated in front wore their best dark coats, which in a 1950s southern European village meant the coats they had owned since before the war and would be buried in. Behind them, the woman in the blue dress is smiling the way people smile when they organised the occasion, the two men in dark suits and ties having turned out with the careful formality that rural men of that generation reserved for church, funerals, and cameras, treating all three with roughly equal gravity. The house itself is doing none of the heavy lifting: plaster has peeled back to bare stone across most of the façade, and a century of weather has left marks that no amount of Sunday dressing could distract from. Someone made this portrait to send abroad — to a son in Argentina, a cousin in America, the standard postwar diaspora destination — as evidence that the old place, and the old people in front of it, were still there.

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