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A close-up side-profile shot of a man in his thirties with a glossy slicked-back pompadour and neatly trimmed sideburns, sitting upright in a chrome and red leather barber’s chair, wrapped in a pale blue nylon barber cape fastened at the neck with a strip of white tissue. He looks slightly to the right with a serious, steady expression, his jaw set, a few fresh-cut hair clippings scattered on the cape across his shoulder. Just behind him, a barber in his fifties with grey hair combed flat, a crisp white button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled, a narrow black tie and dark trousers leans in close, running a pair of chrome electric clippers up the back of the man’s neck, a black comb held between two fingers of his other hand, his eyes narrowed in concentration. Behind them, a long wall mirror reflects a row of chairs where another man sits reading a folded newspaper, and further back a third man in a fedora waits on a bench beneath a coat rack. A glass jar of blue disinfectant with combs standing in it, a shaving brush, a leather strop and a row of tonic bottles line the counter below the mirror, and a red, white and blue barber pole turns slowly in the front window. The room has pale powder-blue walls, white trim and a black and white checkered tile floor. Soft natural daylight from the front window on the left lights his face and the edge of the pompadour, catching a glint on the clippers and casting gentle shadows behind his ear. Tight framing on the seated man with shallow depth of field, the barber slightly soft and the mirror reflections blurred. 1950s cinematic film still with muted pastel blues, creams and reds, soft contrast and fine grain.