Marion's reflections on this image offer a little bit of insight into how she might have visually conceived of the labor-jook joint connection during her time in Belle Glade. Many of her images of Belle Glade jook joints, particularly of black establishments, though not exclusively, have a great sense of physicality to them. With the visual vocabulary or framework in mind, we can more imaginatively understand to what she might have intended these suggestions to speak.

 

 

 

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Juliet Gorman, May 2001

 

You have two choices at this point:

Have you read up on Belle Glade, the area where Marion Post Wolcott took her jook photos?

If you have, maybe you are ready to check out the photos yourself?