Bad trouble over the weekend, Steep Ravine, California after 1964

Dorothea Lange took this photograph, "Bad trouble over the weekend, Steep Ravine, California," we don't know exactly when or why. A close up on a person's hands and a lit cigarette. The hands are anxiously clasped in front of their face. I wonder what kind of weekend it was? Those hands tell a story, don't they? So much tension held in those fingers. Look how tightly they're woven together. And the cigarette, like a small, burning reminder of something unresolved. I can almost feel the weight of whatever they're dealing with. Lange, like many photographers, was interested in capturing something real. A fragment of life, raw and unfiltered. You can see echoes of other artists who grappled with similar themes, like Diane Arbus, each using their lens to explore the human condition. It's like they're all in conversation, these artists, across time and space, trying to make sense of the world. They were all feeling the same things and expressing it through their medium.