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Show STUDY IN WHITE The photographer is going all out for a study in white. He hopes for a silky, crowlike negative with layers upon layers of black spreading from edge to edge. So for a setting he has chosen an old farm kitchen in the northernmost province of France on a perfect winter day. For background there are only the plain whitewashed walls and the cold snowlight pouring into the room through the tall icy windows. The picture's single figure, central in the frame, is a French nun in white habit. At the photographer's request she has removed with a razor her long black eyebrows and now stands at a scrubbed pine table, behind the four ivory eggs he has placed there just in the white light that passes through the clear pitcher of milk positioned just to her left. From out of a linen sack she has just withdrawn two great handfuls of flour and these she holds out before her to fill the whole center of the frame. At the moment the shutter snaps open she is exploring the powder with her lowered eyes as if searching for the secret of bread. The photographer is jubilant. The negative in its wash looks like a thin slice of coal [continued, stanza breakj |