Black & White Photograph by Eduardo Garcia: Untitled, From From Inside Series

A boy swings a stick in a street, caught at the exact instant.

This black and white photograph from the series From Inside, Cuba is by Eduardo Garcia, from Cuba, and is contemporary. It is pigment on paper. Black and white photography reduces a scene to light, shape and texture, and it remains a favored medium for contemporary photographers who want a quiet, direct look at their subjects. A black-and-white photograph of a dark silhouetted boy mid-swing with a long bat, on an empty road in front of weathered buildings with dark windows. Distant figures run in the background, and the print has a white border. It is 12 inches wide and 8 high.

Everybody in the neighborhood is waiting on that swing.