Father and Son on Adriatic Harbour Quay, Dalmatian Coast, 1950s

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Father and Son on Adriatic Harbour Quay, Dalmatian Coast, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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A man in a wool cardigan and wide-patterned tie stands on a limestone quay somewhere along the Dalmatian coast with a small boy in knee socks, both positioned with the careful deliberateness of people who understand that a photograph is a formal occasion requiring their best posture. The stone-fronted buildings stepping up behind the harbour inlet — pale, densely-packed, roofed in the Roman tile of the eastern Adriatic — place this firmly in a Yugoslav coastal town in the Tito era, when such a scene required either foreign currency or the right papers to witness. The man is holding a cigarette in a way that suggests he has momentarily forgotten it, which is the attitude every European man of the 1950s adopted toward cigarettes. Behind them, a small wooden dinghy sits tied to the quay with a registration plate beginning BA, consistent with the Split harbour district's lettering conventions of the period. The boy stares at the camera with the mild resentment of a child who was playing somewhere and was collected for this purpose, which is the permanent condition of children in holiday photographs across every decade.

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