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[–]trilbyspills 3 points4 points ago

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This is one of my favourite pictures, I was obsessed with it a few years ago when I first saw it.

The time is summer of 1958, the place is Hamburg, Germany and the "catwoman" is a seventeen year old girl named Bianca. She loved ballet and once had a vivid dream in which she was a cat, dancing across bottletops. She practised for weeks, eight hours every single day, to make her dream come true, culminating in this magnificent image. (I'm afraid I can't remember any other details of the story; I do know that the man in the picture is a relation but can't recall whether he's her father or her uncle.)

The photographer is called Carlo Polito. I couldn't find much more of his work, just a handful of photos from 1960s and 70s online, none of which are anywhere near as wonderful as this.

If you look at it for a while, you'll notice that the the louvred half door is painted onto the wall beneath a window and the beer barrel is painted behind a conveniently located garden tap. On the one hand this makes the image even more surreal, on the other there's something so touching about the effort this family made to create this beautiful scene as Bianca dreamed it.

[–]omgimba 1 point2 points ago

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It reads "wine cellar - at black cat's"

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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cool!

[–]ManofToast 0 points1 point ago

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Wow.

[–]gstatty 0 points1 point ago

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She later became Annie Lenox.

[–]binarypower 0 points1 point ago

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1 Guy, 1 Jar's mother