Young Boxers in Ring with Trainers, Cinematic Feeling c. 1950s Glossy Snapshot odd fellows object perhaps near one's favorite reading

perhaps near one's favorite reading chair

They feel of a piece with those antique house and church shaped tole painted still banks I like so much--in the same palette too

but I have some notion it may be the work of Henry Evaluardjuk  (1923-2007)

handle turns smoothly

and the attitudes of these two

Young Boxers in Ring with Trainers, Cinematic Feeling c. 1950s Glossy Snapshot odd fellows object perhaps near one's favorite readingThis photo snuck up on me (like a good boxer I guess!) I first grabbed it because I love a boxing photo, but the more time I spend with it the more compelling I find it, and moodily cinematic feeling, too, with a sense of real significance to the quiet moment captured, as if some sort of turning point in all of their lives. I do love to project! But really, what a beautiful play of bodies and gestures and details, down to the pair of boxing gloves