Daphne 034

Great posing by Daphne in Rodenstock glasses from the

mid 1960's called "Maya". The frame was highly popular

at the time and it was a bestseller for this German company.

The frame was available in orange, in black and in brown.

My collection hosts examples in all these colours and many

of my models posed in them (e.g. Gita, Tineke, Brigitta and

Astrid on my first weblog and more recently Claudia Allegonda).

It's not the easiest of frames for portrait photography and this

has to do with the shape of the small, solid frame. Here Daphne

joins their ranks and somehow this portrait stands out. In my

portrait photography I try to revive images seen in the streets

of Amsterdam when the glasses were new. There was more

restriction in the posing in those days and Daphne manages

the time machine effect in a striking way. To complicate things

further, the lenses have a major difference in Rx. The left lens

is noticeably stronger, creating an assymetry that adds to the

overall impression. Great!