A weary young boy surrenders to exhaustion following the sensory spectacle of the circus, his small body slack with the particular fatigue that only childhood wonder can produce. Ruth Orkin captures this tender, unguarded moment with her signature humanist eye, the gelatin silver print rendering the soft textures of rest in rich, luminous tones. The flush-mounted format draws the viewer intimately close, emphasizing the quiet poetry Orkin consistently found in everyday life.