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A black-and-white silver-gelatin fashion photograph, gray values only, charcoal blacks and bone highlights. DC_Comics_Golden_Glider is an Asian-American woman in her early twenties with a visible Asian-American face, a sharp bob of charcoal hair and one lighter silver streak, slept-on, forehead bone-bare, lithe agile build. Her head is bare except for her own hair; the domino-mask is not on her face. She is nude. What the viewer sees is back, shoulder, nape, hip, outer thigh, calf, arm, and face; those planes hide the rest because she sits on the floor in profile on a paper sweep, legs stretched, spine curved, the bob a curtain. Anatomy lock: one head, two arms, two hands with five fingers, two legs, two feet. Face is distant. Gaze goes to camera-left at a blank wall of ash. Light is hair-edge silver, skin left matte. Makeup is gray stain: worn graphite at the mouth, broken liner as soot under the eyes, mascara tracks as ash, leftover lid as dull pewter, a smear on one cheek. Paper sweep of bone curving to a charcoal cyc, velvet charcoal behind the far hip, bone plane on the cheekbone and the near shoulder. On the floor near the feet, discarded, lies a small hard domino-mask of gray metal empty of a face; that is the only recognizable artifact and it is not on her body. No readable text. Camera is 135mm fashion feel, shallow falloff, magazine grain, focus on the face, the smeared gray makeup, the covering hair curtain, and the discarded gray-metal domino-mask. Skin is a gray value. The photograph is monochrome only.