Another 'RPPC' (Real Photo Post Card) from, I think, the 1940s or 1950s. Unlike many examples of vernacular photography, it captures something rather more than mere everyday-ness. As Julia Kristeva puts it, 'In every bourgeois family, there is one child who has a soul.'
Yes, he has a soul. Partly because of a certain vanity and softness; partly because he looks faintly abused.
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