Bruce Baillie Mr. Hayashi (1961)
Bruce Baillie s Mr. Hayashi might be thought of as a putative East Coast story transformed by a West Coast sensibility. The narrative, slight as it is, mounts a social critique of sorts, involving the difficulty the title character, a Japanese gardener, has finding work that pays adequately. But the beauty of Baillie s blackandwhite photography, the misty lusciousness of the landscapes he chooses to photograph, and the powerful silence of Mr. Hayashi s figure within them make the viewer forget all about economics and ethnicity.
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