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Michael at Smart Alec Hatters, Fitzroy 2016 – Agfa Super Isolette
People who know me might choose to think they know why I picked this photo. It’s there in the title in — ahem — black and white.
An old film camera, shot on black and white film, that’s why she picked on this portrait, they’d think.
But they’d be wrong. It’s not one thing — or even those two things — it’s everything.
The way the window-light falls on Michael’s face, illuminating his pensive eyes. The way the darkness behind him is counterbalanced by a stack of pale fedoras. The way those darker hats flesh out the white wall with shades of grey. The glint in Michael’s eye, the words forming on his lips, the button on the waistcoat.
And the camera and the film.
Yes of course, the old camera and the black and white film. But that’s not the whole of it, only a part in the sum of it all.
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