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“You will dream everything I have seen in dream.“ 

“Inside your cover’s always blown”

-Interpol

Saul Leiter :: ‘focus’ on her, no title

Valentine and Sons, A Negro Boy, Kingston, Jamaica, 1891.

“After the rapid decline of the colony’s once crowning sugar industry in the early nineteenth century, the island’s ruling classes complained that Jamaica could “hang only on the skirts of modern civilization.” Through tourism and new commerce, however, they prophesied that the New Jamaica, in the words of one hopeful resident, would “be ‘discovered’ in the modern sense, and if we succeed in pleasing the fastidious taste of the class [of tourists] … we may also in the modern sense be ‘made.’” Photographs, like the one Valentine and Sons created, were central to the formation and propagation of these ideals.