A boy or a girl ? A boy with a whig and with a girlish veil and dress ?
Yes, most likely, a boy...
I love so much this photograph... I love the sweet face, I love the dreaming eyes, we will never know what he was looking at...
I love the intemporal poetry of this photograph, the beauty of this face is shining for ever, these eyes will haunt me for ever...
Wilhelm von Gloeden's camera caught for ever the fugitive time of a dream, of a memory, of a thought...
This boy of Taormina is looking at eternity...
I don't know your name... Perhaps in Taormina someone still remember it...?
Were you a friend of Pasqualino ?
You make me dream and I would love so much, so much to tell you, so many things...
I know you would listen to me, you would understand me and even smile, and again, you would turn your gaze towards this so remote horizon, back to an immemorial past or to a future beyond your imagination...
Yes, in 2011, there is still someone who is moved by your beauty, by your youth, by the mystery, the riddle of your gaze, so focussed, so deep, so silent...
You are now a part of my small collection of von Gloeden's masterworks... I choose only photographs that inspire me, photographs that are a music for my eyes, for my heart, for my thought...
Perhaps I am wrong, but I think I already crossed your path, a while ago, I was already seduced by your beauty, by your mystery, by your ambiguity. Boy or girl ? Pure beauty ignores borders... Any collection is ruled by its inner logic, by the gaze and the sensitivity of the collector...
Are you the same boy as this one, I posted on my blog on January 29, in 2010 ???
Yes, I think so...
I love this photograph, and, may I tell it frankly, I love you too, so much...
3 comments:
there's something in his upper lip that reveals his masculinity perhaps, but I agree with you about the ambiguity.
Anyway it is seems to be the eye of the photographer -in my opinion-: the pose is quite affected and the costume it is too.
loved his nostalgic eyes, full of tears. delicious portrait of puberty
Thanks for your sensitive comment... I agree with you about the upper lip as well as about the nostalgic eyes, full of tears... This is such a beautiful photograph....
It is a boy without any doubt. He is the same boy crowned with passionflowers in the photos posted on December 22 and October 29, 2011. There are some other pictures of him wearing the same bizarre chiffon dress.
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