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Friday, October 18, 2013
The Gothic Horror Hair Bow
I don't know about anyone else, but I associate that hair bow with twelve year old girls, not adult women. That alone makes this image kind of odd, throw in the leafless trees and shadows, and it all seems rather creepy. I don't know why, but it reminds me of Nosferatu. The silent version directed by F.W. Murnau, not the surprisingly good Werner Herzog remake.
Stamped on the back, "H. POGADE, NEUKOLLN 50" Neukollon, with two dots above the "O" is a neighborhood in Berlin. It took a bit of web surfing, but I was able to find a reference to a Pogade Camera Store, in Berlin, that dates back to, at least, the mid thirties. There's a watermark on the back, "Agfa Lupex" that wasn't used before the mid forties, so 50 might be a year.
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