Show IN WAR v These photographs serene and many times removed from any aura of violence were taken token in immediate neighborhood of battlegrounds during World War II by Harvey Belgin combat photographer His one-man one showing in the Smithsonian Institution re recently recently recently re- re was adjudged one of the finest documentary documentary documentary docu docu- series produced by an individual photographer during the war Picture at top was taken on Okinawa while fighting was heaviest on the island In Cebu Philippines the appealing feature of the picture below was the friendly smile of the peasant girl The old fisherman right was a character on peninsula Okinawa t 1 r Y Hen r Y Y 9 a f o o Ip q a. a brI q t c I 4 ti x f t P f rf ka 4 p t J Tg J c Here in the extreme northern part of Okinawa the primeval forest hills are sparsely inhabited and accessible only by narrow roads and trails Here was poetry music proverbs proverbs and and the danger of snipers snipers' bullets when this was taken during mopping up operations l. r r S i yia k 3 0 tr 4 r I r j k p r z s pi Belgin's primary rendezvous in Okinawa was to record the war but he kept another rendezvous to 1 prove his own belief that the horror in which he was engulfed was not humanity's inevitable lot He found scenes like this right In the middle of a gigantic war war war- curious portraits suggesting that death was a million miles away It is the calm peace of low tide on ona ona ona a coral coast of Okinawa The water buffalos of Cebu Philippines left get excellent excellent excellent ex ex- care by their masters These huge creatures are very necessary to cultivate the rice fields However this picture shows another use for the powerful pull of the animal Note the crude cart The ring in the nose serves as a bridle To develop his pictures Belgin used his pup tent and waited for moonless nights to fashion a darkroom in which his helmet became the developing tank and canvas water bags from his jeep the means for fixing and washing the film t iii i s rr ry r t J. A I Y i t NS N'S W NSW t f oN f J d x wy J sa 4 J Harvey Belgin Selgin 36 was born in Canada of Latvian parents He joined the U. U S. S arm army Y in 1942 I covered the invasion of Okinawa and after a rest in the Philippines he got in on the occupation of Japan J traY traveling ling from tho the extreme southern part to the far northern tip of the island of Hokkaido 1 o t Jl lf h |