Young Woman Laughing

The photograph depicts a laughing young woman standing by a porch railing; two younger boys are visible in the lower right corner.

Cleveland free speech activist Jasper Wood was a self-taught writer and photographer. His principal subjects were the residents of the Scovill Avenue area of Cleveland His photographs, many of which were taken with a Contax 35mm camera, attempted to capture what he called the “felt moment seen,” or the emotional essence of what he, the photographer, was seeing