Ready, but not yet moving
A pause can be full of activity. This Gold Beach rifleman is down on one knee, held between watching and moving out. His inspiration is the British infantryman waiting for the next instruction or a chance to cross a patch of exposed ground.
The model's subject is not a famous individual. He stands for the less-recorded men in a battalion whose collective actions made the landing and inland advance possible. That ordinary readiness gives him a different rhythm from a running figure or a man caught at the instant of firing.
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