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slideshow 30, slide 17/73
berkeley, california
1971
candid / street photography
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Olympus Stylus Epic // Kodak Portra 400 // Allegheny National Forest
For the full version of this real photo postcard, see Three Men and a Real Doll.
These three cheeky fellows are using a doll's thumb and nose to deliver an impertinent message. See also a close-up of the doll's rude gesture.
For other better-mannered examples of adults posing with dolls, see Man and Woman with Doll at Niagara Falls, Guys, Ladies, and Doll, Guys and Dolls, and Four Women and a Doll on a Train.
A free railroad pass? See Traveler's Free Pass for more information.
The printing on the outside of this card claims that it's an Official Free Pass Good on All Lines of the A.H.H. & W.W.A., which makes it sound like it's a free railroad pass.
When the card is opened, however, a specially constructed "magic thumb" pops up above the edge, revealing that the "A.H.H. & W.W.A." isn't actually a railway line. Instead, the initials stand for the "American Hitch-Hiker and Weary-Walker Association."
To use the "free pass," of course, you have to "start waggling the magic thumb" on your own hand in order to hitch a ride from a passing motorist.
Traveler's Free Pass
Issued by authority of the American Hitch-Hiker and Weary-Walker Association.
Fellow travelers! What a pass!
No tickets to buy, no tires, no gas!
Whenever you want to go or come--
Just start waggling the magic thumb!
Originally posted on Ipernity: Woman and Man at the High Water Mark Monument, Gettysburg, Pa. (Detail).
For more information, see the original photo (below).
In this snapshot, a woman sits for a souvenir photo in front of the giant book that's part of the High Water Mark of the Rebellion Monument on the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania.
When I purchased this photo, I noticed that there's a man on the right who's oddly standing behind the woman and near the back of the monument. I didn't think anything of it until I got home and scanned the photo. When I took a look at an enlarged version (see below), I made the unexpected discovery that the fellow was irreverently thumbing his nose as the photographer snapped the picture. Photobombing, of course, is nothing new!
See below for monument photos from 1906 and 1912 as well as a recent view.
Originally posted as an unexpected details photo for the Vintage Photos Theme Park on Ipernity: Woman and Man at the High Water Mark Monument, Gettysburg, Pa.
..trying everything to entice any potential driver to give a ride.. :)
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