Mary’s Reviews > Double Negative > Status Update

"While my thoughts were elsewhere, Auerbach took the picture. For only the second time that day the shutter fell through the moment, like a guillotine. You can see the relief on Mrs Ditton's face as she drops from the fullness of life into a smaller, diminished, immortality. She looks grateful to have the air knocked out of her. Anticipating a paper thin future, she floats free of the fat-thighed cushions