Forced Idleness

Forced Idleness

Photograph

Forced Idleness

"Pieds Noirs" Make Tracks for France


1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 5 11/16 × 9 7/16 in. (14.4 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0242
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: Credit: Roger Coral © 1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS \ (refugees) 5/62 5) FORCED IDLENESS: men lounge in yard of camp \ complaining of their lot. Jobs are not easy to find. \ Discontent makes them easy prey for the propaganda of the anti-government Secret Army Orgnization.
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