© Werner Bischof, 1950s, Michiko Jinuma, Japan

This photograph is featured in the (fantastic) video I just posted - I immediately fell in love with it.

“Is she ‘Americanized’? No, she takes on certain customs that come from America, she admires an American washing machine or a modern kitchen, but she doesn’t have to have one - and that seems to me to be the critical difference, this self-restraint in character.” (Werner Bischof)

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