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Bharateeyudu Side Hero Username: Bharateeyudu Post Number: 5890 Registered: 03-2016 Posted From: 117.221.91.149 Rating: N/A |
http://time.com/3456028/the-most-beautiful-suicide-a-violent -death-an-immortal-photo/ But beyond the mystery of Evelyn McHale's life and death, there is the equally profound mystery of how a single photograph of a dead woman can feel so technically rich, visually compelling and—it must be said—so downright beautiful so many years after it was made. There's a reason, after all, why she is often referred to as "the most beautiful suicide"; why Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles' picture for his Suicide: Fallen Body (1962); why once we look, it's so hard to look away. In Wiles' photo, Evelyn (it doesn't feel right to refer to her as "Ms. McHale") looks for all the world as if she's resting, or napping, rather than lying dead amid shattered glass and twisted steel. Everything about her pose—her gloved hand clutching her necklace; her gently crossed ankles; her right hand with its gracefully curved fingers—suggests that she is momentarily quiet, perhaps thinking of her plans for later in the day, or daydreaming of her beau. https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/140318-1947-s uicide-robert-wiles.jpg?quality=85 |