The tenderness of Motherhood - PHOTO

Ken Heyman, 83, captured images of mothers and their children of various religions and nationalities playing, laughing, cuddling, feeding or grooming, more than 50 years ago.Despite their differences a running theme through each and every picture is the unmistakeable maternal bond and love shared between parent and child.In one, a conservatively dressed mother from the USSR teaches her toddler to ride a bike in 1963, while around the same time a mother in Denmark shares a bath time giggle with her bare-bottomed cherub.Renowned and award-winning people photographer Ken uncovered the nearly forgotten treasure in a box labelled Mothers, after clearing out his things from a storage facility.He received a call from the office of his former agent, Woodfin Camp, who said he needed to come down to retrieve some belongings from the facility which was closing.Stashed inside dozens of old boxes were hundreds of vintage prints and thousands of slides from assignments and books Heyman had undertaken throughout his career.He shot the black and white images for a Pulitzer-nominated book titled Family, which he co-authored with famed anthropologist Margaret Mead in 1965. Margaret had been his teacher at first, but they later wound up working together on this and other books and projects. Their anthropological collaboration is apparent in the images, as they document motherhood around the world from many cultural perspectives.Despite their age, we can all relate to the emotions shown between mother and child in the pictures - they could have been taken today and, retro fashion aside, one would be none the wiser.(dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.az