Sunday, December 18, 2011

W. G. Sebald at 17, a photograph of a photograph

From 8mobili's photostream on Flickr, here's a photograph of W. G. Sebald's 1961 blood donor card, containing a photo of the author as a 17 year-old young man. Since the only familiar images of Sebald show him in the last two decades of his life, there's a slight shock in realizing that he was once this moody-looking Bavarian youth.
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2 comments:

  1. Harvey MorrellDecember 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM

    Have you shown that Sebald picture to the folks at http://sebald.wordpress.com/
    yet?

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  2. BRIAN OARDDecember 21, 2011 at 11:22 PM

    I assume they've already seen it, but I may be wrong.

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