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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Unknown Townsend I


Edwin Townsend was best known for his many amazing photos of Tony Sansone.  My usually impeccable source says this is an unknown, but I do see a resemblance to Mr. Sansone.

 

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  1. This is a unique shot of Sansone, but NOT a bad one at all.

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    1. The only bad photos I've ever seen of Mr. Sansone, and there were only a very few, could be entirely attributed to low quality scanning.

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  2. I'd posit that this is Leon Nole (the same guy 3 posts hence). The skins tones and the hair match.

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  3. Schönes Körperbau Porträt.
    Kunst mit Licht und Schatten schaffen, sehr clever von Townsend. (“)

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  4. Townsend started as a portrait and Broadway photographer. As his contemporaries Alfred Johnston and Edwin Hesser supplemented their incomes by photographing female nudes, Townsend decided to photograph male nudes in a refined style. From 1925 until his death in 1957, Townsend focused on the male nude.
    Rex in DC

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  5. + chiaroscuro - foto di fisico straordinario

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