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Nightwalker50 [2011-03-30 15:14:57 +0000 UTC]

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"Unknown Beauty" is a photographic visual that is vibrant with color and shows subtle ambiguous symbolism. Upon viewing this image, a person quickly assumes that it is the subject's dark glasses that alone give support to the title. However, just as the glasses make any more beauty of her face unknown to us, her dark shirt can symbolically make any beauty of the person or her heart unknown. Black hides things well and invokes mystery. The picture thus is very much a display type, with no eye contact from the model to the camera -- and to us, though the subject is amply composed by the artist, to also show a clever mimicry of red color from the model's head AND from the head of the bird on her shirt. More symbolism is brought forth about her head, as the blurry white to deep-blue background provides a saintly highlight that makes it outstanding. Furthermore, individual hair strands extending into it give the beauty shown an energetic quality of power, radiating visual electricity. So, the subject in the photo appropriately lives up to the title of the image. It is said that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder (subjectively), but by both parties making some amount(s) of it unknown here, a door of opportunity is opened for anyone's individual interpretation of any degrees of hidden mystery and visible detail correspondingly provided. Certainly, the title given is more proper than any simple, more anonymous name.

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