Show nr Z e d 2 a these photographs serene and many times removed from any aura of violence were taken in immediate neighborhood of during world orld war II 11 by harvey belgin combat photographer his one man showing in the smithsonian institution recently was adjudged one of the finest documentary 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 v Z X 2 1 n azo al 1 aj m tt arf dufief tac 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 poe try music proverbs and the danger of snipers bullets when this was taken during mopping up operations Z ga 4 i Bel beggins gins primary rendezvous in okinawa was to record the war but he kept another rendezvous to prove his own belief that the horror in which ho he was engulfed was not human itys inevitable lot he found scenes like this right in the middle of a gigantic war curious portraits sugg suggesting sting that death was a million miles away it is the calm peace of low tide on a 0 coral coast of okinawa T 1 I the water buffalos buffaloe buff alos of cebu philippines left get gel ex ballent care by their masters these huge creatures are are very necessary to cultivate the rice fields however this picture shows another use for the powerful po gerful pull of the ih 6 animal note the crude cart the ring in in the nose serves as a bridle to develop his pictures beig belgin in used his pup tent and waited for moonless nights to fashion a darkroom in which his helmet became the developing tank and canvas water bogs bags from hi his s jeep the means for fixing and washing the film k t 1 10 t 0 rk N W harvey belgin belaf in 36 was wai born in canada of latvian parents he bof joined ned the U S army in 1942 covered the invasion of okinawa and after a rest in the philippines he got in on the occupation of japan tra wi extreme southern part to the for far no northern athern tip of the island of hokkaido Hok kaido |