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Monday, May 2, 2022
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Can somebody please tell us what that thing on the model's head is?
This was made way to early for tin foil hats, but that's what it looks like.
Interesting question. I like the model and the poise, i see him perhaps sitting on imaginary Arabian stairs. But the headpiece and the haphazard (blankets, table cloths?) are all i can focus on. Too bad….
If you look at the rest of the props, the only conclusion I can come to is that it is possibly a very amateurish take on a Byzantine crown. Walter Kundzicz eat your heart out!
Fred Kovert was a veteran of the silent pictures, so perhaps he came across something like that "crown" in his movie career. Mr. Kundzicz generally managed to get the details better on his props, even if some of them looked like (or were) toys.
Yes, fqmorris. This sort of thing shows up again and again in Kovert's work. Some researchers have said that Fred Kovert was more of a scene director than an actual photographer, having hired others to do most of the actual picture taking.
The hat could be aluminum foil, as the foil first appeared in commercial applications around the time of World War I. Foil made of tin was used before that, but aluminum foil became popular for food storage as tin left a strange taste behind.
Yes, aluminum foil was available, and it might well be the material in question. My "tin foil hat" reference was to a certain group of people who think modern radio and electrical emissions are brain damaging. It's kind of a joke here in Hawaii about folks who oppose modernization while talking on cell phones and using computers.
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Interesting question. I like the model and the poise, i see him perhaps sitting on imaginary Arabian stairs. But the headpiece and the haphazard (blankets, table cloths?) are all i can focus on. Too bad….
ReplyDeleteThat headpiece was so jarring that I barely noticed the tablecloths.
DeleteIf you look at the rest of the props, the only conclusion I can come to is that it is possibly a very amateurish take on a Byzantine crown. Walter Kundzicz eat your heart out!
ReplyDeleteFred Kovert was a veteran of the silent pictures, so perhaps he came across something like that "crown" in his movie career. Mr. Kundzicz generally managed to get the details better on his props, even if some of them looked like (or were) toys.
DeleteYes, fqmorris. This sort of thing shows up again and again in Kovert's work. Some researchers have said that Fred Kovert was more of a scene director than an actual photographer, having hired others to do most of the actual picture taking.
DeleteThe headpiece could be Javanese or Sumatran. He has a strange expression on his face, but other things make up for that.
ReplyDeleteYes, the model does have a lot going for him.
DeleteHe's at least well on the way to a erection. Maybe he found it worrying.
DeleteThe hat could be aluminum foil, as the foil first appeared in commercial applications around the time of World War I. Foil made of tin was used before that, but aluminum foil became popular for food storage as tin left a strange taste behind.
ReplyDeleteYes, aluminum foil was available, and it might well be the material in question. My "tin foil hat" reference was to a certain group of people who think modern radio and electrical emissions are brain damaging. It's kind of a joke here in Hawaii about folks who oppose modernization while talking on cell phones and using computers.
DeleteAn early QANON member?
ReplyDeleteVery good! I hadn't thought of that one.
DeleteI think it is a gold/metallic painted papeir-maché mask.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Greek tragic?
Possibly, if tilted back on the top of his head.
DeleteWell, if I'm going to be hones, I'll have to say that's what most viewers notice first.
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