His experience as a child of the Depression growing up in Brooklyn, Mr. Liebling said, formed an impulse throughout his career to “figure out where the pain was, to show things that people wouldn’t see unless I was showing them.” Over a half-century much of his work depicted painful subjects far too directly for magazines or newspapers to show them: mental patients in state hospitals, cadavers used by New York medical students, blood-drenched workers at a Minnesota slaughterhouse.
In this perspective his photograph, titled "Cat Milking" is a vision of heaven. In the cool barn a man sits on a stool milking cows, and he squirts the stream into the mouth of a yellow and white striped cat. Two cats are both sitting on their haunches, leaning forward, their front legs hanging down.
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