#plus dog

A charming group portrait here, two men and their devoted dog, looking quite comfortable to lie across both laps - any struggling movement would have blurred the image but we see he is as sharply captured as his master and companion. This would have been taken in a professional studio, despite the misleadingly domestic background, which is in fact a skillfully painted backdrop - many scenery painters from the theatre found additional work with the emerging photographic trade.

Young man with flowers, dated very precisely to the 9th June 1900, a truly lovely photograph by Wilhelm von Gloeden.
Though the handsome model and his tangled handful of wild flower tendrils are the deserving focus of the piece, do take a moment to look closer and meet von Gloeden’s dear black dog, Nedda - she makes several appearances in his work, affectionately snuggling up to models, or almost vanishing in the dark tones of the foreground.