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Sunday, February 9, 2025
Mystery
This last photo is one that I picked up in the last days of tumblr labeled only "Barrington."
If it is by him, the technical quality is a bit above the usual.
I find his work interesting when he got it right. A good choice of models also. Makes me wonder why he was not up to par on preserving his work for posterity.
Mystère révèle :) Le modèle est Michaelangelo. Barrington had a friendship with Howard Austen who collected photos by Barrington. Austen was a companion at the time to Gore Vidal, and invited Barrington to their Rome apartment where he met film director Zeffirelli and his muse Michaelangelo in 1967. While Austen and Gore entertained Zeffirelli and other guests downstairs, Barrington spent time photographing and seducing Michaelangelo upstairs :)
Weird image. Hotel wardrobe mirror? To me, in some ways, Barrington's variable technical quality, evokes the era. Still kicking myself for not modelling for him.
One senses a mood of melancholy in this day in the life photo. Well done technically with the lighting, the pose of the model and the angle. Looks like he is posed against an armoire in a bedroom, and of additional interest, aside from his nude body, are the details of its contents and that of the objects on the dresser reflected in the mirror. Rex in DC
If they weren't naked, I'd say they were hanging on to a bus/subway handhold.
ReplyDeleteIt does look like it.
DeleteI find his work interesting when he got it right. A good choice of models also. Makes me wonder why he was not up to par on preserving his work for posterity.
ReplyDeleteI thought this was a mirror photo when I first saw it. That's how good Barrington could be when at his best.
DeleteMystère révèle :)
ReplyDeleteLe modèle est Michaelangelo.
Barrington had a friendship with Howard Austen who collected photos by Barrington. Austen was a companion at the time to Gore Vidal, and invited Barrington to their Rome apartment where he met film director Zeffirelli and his muse Michaelangelo in 1967.
While Austen and Gore entertained Zeffirelli and other guests downstairs, Barrington spent time photographing and seducing Michaelangelo upstairs :)
Weird image. Hotel wardrobe mirror? To me, in some ways, Barrington's variable technical quality, evokes the era. Still kicking myself for not modelling for him.
ReplyDeleteOne senses a mood of melancholy in this day in the life photo. Well done technically with the lighting, the pose of the model and the angle. Looks like he is posed against an armoire in a bedroom, and of additional interest, aside from his nude body, are the details of its contents and that of the objects on the dresser reflected in the mirror.
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Interesting story.
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