Photographer Milton Brooks joins a crowd of journalists outside the gates.
Brooks is an unusual news photographer. Unlike his colleagues, he rarely takes
more than on picture at any event, preferring to stand patiently until the
most newsworthy images presents itself. Today, as cameras snap and toll all
around him, Brooks waits.
Finally, the photographer sees his chance. 'I saw a man pick a fight with
some of the picket,' he says. 'He had the wrong of the argument and I could
tell what he said at that there would be trouble soon.' Fists are clenched,
clubs raised. Brooks snaps a single photograph; eight strikers, faces contorted;
a lone dissenter, crouching low, his coat pulled over his head. 'I took the
picture quickly, hid the camera under my coat and ducked into the crowd. A
lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture.'"
-1942
The Picket Line
Milton Brooks
The Detroit News
