Genur.art

A black-and-white silver-gelatin fashion photograph, gray values only, charcoal blacks and bone highlights. DC_Comics_Power_Girl is a woman in her early twenties with short hair as pale silver bob-cut, eyes pale gray glass, skin open bone-gray texture, powerful athletic build, forehead bone-bare. Her head is bare except for her own hair. 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 stands with both hands stacked on the sternum and shoulders rolled forward. Anatomy lock: one head, two arms, two hands with five fingers, two legs, two feet. Face is a flat editorial line. Gaze goes at a point on the far wall above eye level. Light is high small shine on the nose ridge and collarbone, the rest held in mid-gray. 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. Painted cyc of bone falling to charcoal, velvet charcoal at the cyc edge, bone planes on the near cheek and the rolled shoulder. Over a chair, discarded, hangs a cape of gray cloth as a slashed drape empty of a back; 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 hands, and the discarded gray-cloth cape. Skin is a gray value. The photograph is monochrome only.