Who is this? (Click on the image to see a larger version.)
As usual, no fair researching—just take a guess. If you're familiar with the picture and already know the answer, just hold your tongue so others can guess (the guesses are the fun part). I'll still give you full credit and a share of the first prize, which is easy as 'tis a cup full of nuthin'.
Here are three of our previous "mystery man person" posts. This one, many readers guessed correctly; not so mysterious I guess. This one was more of a challenge. The hardest was one I published way back in the old days of the original Blogger blog (active 2005–2007)—I can't find the original post, and I've had to remove the original TOP from the internet, but here's a screenshot of the reveal post (the mystery photograph I queried readers about was the leftmost of the three):
So as not to frustrate anyone, that "forensic analysis" link that you can't click on in the screenshot is here.
Mike
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Featured Comments from:
Dragan Grbic: "I just imagined a face with a beard. And snap! Not 100% sure, but he looks like young Hemingway."
Mike replies: You are correct sir. I don't think I had ever seen a picture of a young Hemingway before...always the grizzled old man.
My guesses are:
Michael (YrHmblEd) Johnston
Henri Cartier Bresson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Some pretty great company you're in there, Mike. ;)
Posted by: Mark Banas | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 01:13 PM
WAG: Ernest Hemingway.
Posted by: Dogman | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 01:35 PM
Hemingway?
Posted by: Dan | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 01:37 PM
I think it is Ernest Hemingway...if that's a fishing rod, not a monopod, on his hand!
Posted by: Animesh Ray | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 02:35 PM
It’s got to be you, Mike.
Posted by: John E | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 04:10 PM
Ernest Hemingway? (Guess based on age, general appearance, and fishing rod.)
Posted by: Walter Foreman | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 04:14 PM
Marlon Brando
Posted by: Roger Bartlett | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 04:56 PM
It’s Ernest Hemingway.
Voltz
Posted by: V.I. Voltz | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 07:14 PM
Looks like a young Ernest Hemingway
Posted by: Lee Rust | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 08:08 PM
That would be the young man and the sea…
Posted by: Stephen Cowdery | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 08:16 PM
Ernst Hemingway as a young man.
Posted by: Rich Szmyd | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 08:21 PM
Mike Johnston.
Posted by: David Lee | Friday, 09 October 2020 at 10:02 PM
I took this as an opportunity to test and learn about image identification using Google and Bing tools. Selecting a small section of the image (copy/paste a rectangle that included the head and shoulders) each quickly returned the right answer ... as well as a large selection of iconic views of the old man and his younger self. In seconds!
Great time to be alive.
Posted by: Speed | Saturday, 10 October 2020 at 07:46 AM
My first guess was MJ. My second was Hemingway, perhaps on his trek through the Upper Peninsula in 1919.
Posted by: robert e | Saturday, 10 October 2020 at 12:33 PM
What's surprising, now that the subject has been ID'd, is that there's nothing beyond some film grain to suggest that picture wasn't made in on an iPhone in 2020. His clothes would be very acceptable and there's no technology to date it.
Posted by: Barry Reid | Monday, 12 October 2020 at 05:02 AM