Boy With Head in Hands. (sq) August 1959, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato The directness of the boy’s emotion-filled gaze never fails to arrest my attention. How did I make this picture? My custom was to expose a single frame and then look for another subject. This was the last of a twelve-frame roll. What was he thinking? His expression registers more than idle curiosity and there is no fear. What would I say to him now? Would we be any closer together? Is he still alive? When Reva Brooks first saw the contact sheet, she immediately suggested a tight head-and-shoulder crop and I printed it several times over the years that way. However, in 1998 I went with virtually the whole frame, trusting that the strong portrait could easily stand up to the busy background and indeed, would find its appropriate context there.