Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot then in 1910 entered the

then in 1910 entered the field of news photography

but despite  attempting to come off fierce

to me it speaks all about absence and also anticipation--of the specific pipe that once lay there (and was dumped into the bowl) and of the one it now awaits

I have not found others like them and think they have a fair amount of age

Empty Boxing Ring, Poignant Feeling Old WW1 Era French Photo baked beans pot then in 1910 entered theI 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