Fine Print: Children dancing, Orinda, California, 1956 Size:11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm) was shot at the end

was shot at the end of basic training at the women’s army Training Base no

In a crowded snack bar in New Brighton

The contrast between the excess of gestures

following him on a visit from his birthplace in Fairmont

Fine Print: Children dancing, Orinda, California, 1956 Size:11 x 14 in (28 x 36 cm) was shot at the endThe 1950s marked a moment of transition within Wayne Miller's own work. Following the birth of his first child, the photographer began to turn his lens inwards and dedicated himself to photographing his own family. "It was as though I had never been a child," he explained. Wayne Miller regarded childhood as a period of continual discovery and excitement and endeavoured to capture this by documenting the everyday lives of his four children.