Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot with this lovely pale yellow

with this lovely pale yellow for the shirt and soft red for the tips of the feathers

looking as if out in the middle of nowhere

then in 1910 entered the field of news photography

but despite  attempting to come off fierce

Photo itself: 9 5/8" x 7 5/8"

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot with this lovely pale yellowI found this photograph along with a photograph on a blown out building interior taken in Rheims, France during WW1 just after a German bombing listed last week I believe this, like that, is the work of a French photojournalist, and that this is of the same decade. For me there is something very potent about the spare, very essentialist feeling construction of a boxing ring like this, all the more so for being empty, and empty here during wartime I