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Whatever the occasion \u2013 maybe a birthday \u2013 one day I came home from school to discover that my mother had papered the outside doors of my closet with old calendar pages. All of them were portraits by different painters, and all of them were ignored but one that had me instantly smitten: Thomas Gainsborough\u2019s\u00a0Boy in Blue<\/em>. Love at first sight. Not clear if with the painting or the boy. Or the shoes. Not clear either, when that romantic streak in me disappeared, but I digress.<\/p>\n

This week I will be showing portraits taken on the streets or other public places that try to capture some of the energy, the facial expression or the distant demeanor of the boy in blue and others like him. I obviously could not create the light, as the painter did, but had to work\u00a0with the conditions that were present. That is a challenge but also the fun in street photography, you have to be quick, flexible, and in contact with the subject to get their approval.<\/p>\n

Gainsborough painted this around 1770, partially as an homage to van Dyck from whose painting\u00a0he borrowed the costume. The color choice might have been one of defiance, since Gainsborough objected to Joshua Reynold\u2019s proscriptions of what colors\u00a0should<\/em>\u00a0be used for various topics.\u00a0The boy was a merchant\u2019s son, not a royal, and the painting started a long journey after bankruptcy of the owner, ending up eventually in the US where it now hangs in the Huntington. Tidbits: German director Wilhelm Murnau constructed one of his\u00a0first films,\u00a0Der Knabe in Blau,<\/em>completely after this portrait. The anti-hero\u2019s costume in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s\u00a0Django, Unchained\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0was also inspired by this painting.<\/p>\n

Would he look like today\u2019s photograph if only he smiled?<\/p>\n

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