Who is this?
(No fair doing a Tin Eye or Google Images search. Just guess.)
Mike
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Featured Comment by Martin: "Fantin-Latour? Ephrussi?"
Featured Comment by Steven House: "Is it you Mike, whilst at Corcoran School, and studying some old film processing techniques?"
Featured Comment by Charles Lanteigne: "Meh...Fuzzy concept!"
Featured Comment by Mike Chisholm: "Alec Soth, obviously. No, wait—the hat—it's 'David Malki!'"
Featured Comment by Tim Parkin: "Meriadoc Brandybuck (at least the film photography version)."
Featured Comment by Ralf: "A. (Nose) A."
Featured Comment by Lucian Pintilie: "That's PhotoFrankenstein. It's supposed to look like Abraham Lincoln, but everything is Photoshopped: each eye is from a different person (judging by the eyelids and the direction of the gaze), the nose is not aligned with the eyes, the ear looks suspicious, the hand size does not correlate with the overall face...."
Featured Comment by Willem: "Thanks to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, this is easy."
Featured Comment by Ian: "Lartigue?"
Featured Comment by The Lazy Aussie: "I just wish I could say it was me. Insouciance up the ying yang. And a hat you could load film in."
Featured Comment by James: "It's a young Ctein, obviously."
Featured Comment by Ken Tanaka: "I know, I know! He liked to take B&W pics of rocks and trees when he wasn't dressing up to give the Gettysburg Address at drinking parties."
Featured Comment by John Schaefer: "Remembered it from his Autobiography
Featured Comment by James Rhem: "Too easy!!!"
Mike [ruefully] replies: I guess!
Featured Comment by Dave Jenkins: "It's Ansel Adams—the winner by a nose!"
Mike replies: Correct. As you'll see when I get the rest of the comments posted, your correct guess wasn't exactly the only one. I had to close the comments on this post....
Martin's guess of "Ephrussi" really made me laugh. And Lucian's comment is the best-ever description of Ansel's appearance, I think.
His eyes and crooked nose give him away...
Posted by: Jeffrey Goggin | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:10 AM
Ansel Adams. I am currently reading his autobiography, so I have a leg up on his appearance as a younger chap...
Posted by: Stephen Gillette | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:11 AM
Mr. Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Alex G. | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:13 AM
A youthful Anthony Hopkins.
Posted by: Philjel | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:13 AM
Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Dave Karp | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:21 AM
It looks like a young Stanley Kubrick to me.
Posted by: Kenneth Jarecke | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:21 AM
something about the face suggests Ansel Adams
Posted by: Glenn Gordon | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:25 AM
Resembles Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Jack | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:26 AM
AA.
Posted by: Kent Phelan | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:27 AM
Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Rob Atkins | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:29 AM
Ansel of course!
Posted by: Adrian Foley | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:31 AM
Ansel Adams
Posted by: George Sarri | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:31 AM
Ansel?
Posted by: Rob | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:32 AM
Ctein.
Posted by: John Robison | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:32 AM
Definitely Ansel.
Posted by: John Krumm | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:33 AM
Or, Ansel Adams
Posted by: John Robison | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:33 AM
Sure looks like Ansel.
Posted by: Steven Willard | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:36 AM
Ansel Adams?
Posted by: steveH | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:39 AM
Ansel Adams!
Posted by: Steve | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:39 AM
It's Ansel Adams -- the winner by a (very distinctive) nose!
Posted by: Dave Jenkins | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:40 AM
Ansel Adams!
Posted by: aizan | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:42 AM
No mystery here, it's Ansel Adams!
Posted by: Rich | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:43 AM
Either Abraham Lincoln or the man who shot Jesse James. Just a guess.
Posted by: Cary Swanson | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:50 AM
Gotta be our old friend Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Ken | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:55 AM
Ansel.
Posted by: Larry | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:57 AM
Youthful Ansel Adams
Posted by: Dovydas | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 10:57 AM
Looks like Ansel Adams to me.
Posted by: Joseph Reid | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:00 AM
It looks like a young, debonair Ansel Adams. But perhaps I'm seeing things.
Posted by: Mark | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:03 AM
It sort of looks like Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Bill Pierce | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:06 AM
Mike Johnston??
Posted by: Tom V | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:06 AM
Ansel Adams?
Posted by: Andrew | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:11 AM
Ansel adams?
Posted by: Michael Z | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:12 AM
Looks like Ansel Adams just before he made "Monolith"...
--Darin
Posted by: Darin Boville | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:14 AM
Looks like Stanley Kubrick!
Posted by: Paul | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:17 AM
George Eastman
Posted by: MBS | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:18 AM
George Eastman?
Posted by: Alastair | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:20 AM
Abraham Lincoln's body with some random dude's head photochopped in.
Posted by: Jayson Merryfield | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:21 AM
Isn't that Ansel Adams?
Posted by: NW | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:21 AM
Ansel Adams
Posted by: Randi Anglin | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:23 AM
Second guess: Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Tom V | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:24 AM
Looks like a young Ansel...
Posted by: Tom | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:25 AM
Ansel Adams
Posted by: Peter Barber | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:27 AM
Piano virtuoso Ansel Adams. Looking only at the nose, he could be mistaken for the photographer Ansel Adams.
Posted by: Stevan Latkovic | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:28 AM
Ansell Adams?
Posted by: Mark Mortimer | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:30 AM
Ansel is that you? Haven't I told you that if you hang around with those guys you will soon be dressing like them?
Posted by: Jimhamstra.blogspot.com | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:34 AM
It is Mike Johnston.
Posted by: Christer | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:39 AM
The young Ansel Adams?
Posted by: Steve Greenwood | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:40 AM
Saint Ansel?
Posted by: Slobodan Blagojevic | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:42 AM
Might it be John Wilkes Booth wearing a Lincoln type stovepipe hat? How ironic if it is him.
Posted by: Darrell Marquette | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 11:42 AM
It's Ansel.
Jason in Hawaii has it. The nose, and eyes, are the giveaway.
Posted by: Richard | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 12:14 PM
Ansel Adams, for sure!
Posted by: Jim P | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 03:59 PM
"so, who shot the piano player ?"
Virginia Adams. For the three people who are reading this deep into this particular comment thread. [g]
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Friday, 06 January 2012 at 07:25 PM
Hmm, Ansel looks like a modern day hipster photog despite the clothes!
Posted by: YS | Saturday, 07 January 2012 at 12:45 PM
looks like Ansel to me
Posted by: David | Monday, 09 January 2012 at 01:41 PM