Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm Publisher: Granta
SHE was born Jana Wienerová in Prague, 1934. Her parents are not rich and not poor; she calls them ordinary middlebrows, Czech nationalists – a doctor and a lawyer – who got on a train to Hamburg in July 1939 before shipping over to America and safety.
Here’s a picture of her beside mum and dad as she looks out the carriage window. She’s in a huff but she doesn’t yet know how lucky she is.
