Viennese family in a standing pose
What it is:
Cabinet card measuring 4.25 x 6.5 inches.
What I know about it:
Photographer is Adolf Jakisch of Vienna, Austria. Otherwise undated and unidentified.
Comments:
This has always struck me as a rather strong portrait, since even though there are several people of different ages, and even though a chair is available, everybody is standing, not sitting, gathered in a confident, united pose. (Such a pose does not, of course, preclude the young woman from turning to accentuate our view of her alluring figure.) The more I look at this photo, the more I second-guess myself as to how they might be related, though I do assume they are at least related somehow. I like that it’s a full-length shot, and I’m intrigued by the bird-shaped clasp/buckle thing worn by the woman in the middle. I seem to have a disproportionate number of photos from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire. It’s probably just a coincidence, but I may need to create a new category for them at some point.
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