Eugene Smith’s photograph shows a striking image of Ryoko Uemura, “holding her severely deformed daughter, Tomoko, in a Japanese bath chamber. Tomoko was poisoned while still in the womb.” This is a huge social statement for modern times also because it shows how parents should treat their children even if they have special needs or deformities. “The pieta of our industrial age, critics called it, and the photoessay was ‘a case study in Japanese politics’ the New York Times wrote.”