Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique china doll leg glossy print on photo paper

glossy print on photo paper

3 5/8" long x 1 1/8" wide x 3/4" tall

A bit of splitting to the wood from age/shrinkage but sturdy and stable

and then these shiny silver shapes (aluminum I believe

Beautiful Boys Wading, Old Snapshot Portrait antique china doll leg glossy print on photo paperThis is the second of two photographs of swimmers I purchased on a very sweaty day at Brimfield, but even in depths of winter I know I would have found this bunch too beautiful to resist and the clarity and range of tones in the photograph make it an especially striking one. Such a wonderful mix of gestures and postures among these young men, making it feel like nine individual portraits while also very expressive of their relationships with one