03-02-2012, 11:29 AM
Magda, Dr. Fetzer and I both believe that Lovelady is the figure whom I call "Obfuscated Man" in the Altgens photo. He is standing in front of and slightly to the left of Doorway Man from his perspective, and therefore a little to the right from ours. His face is obfuscated in white, and his body is obfuscated in black.
Here is what I am talking about. Do you see the white blotch? And then the black below it? That is Obfuscated Man.
Now, people like to castigate Jim and me, but what they don't do is account for those weird blotches.
For instance, Doyle tried to say that the white blotch is a JACKET lying over the shoulder of the man whose arms are surrounding his non-existant head. An actual jacket.
Then, do you see the black woman? Look at her hair. Mentally, just look at her hair and nothing else. You notice that it's rather bizarre, the enormous size of it and the werid shape of it. Just compare it to the black woman to her right (our left), whose hair looks normal. Well, for the longest time, Doyle tried to say that there was nothing unusual about her hair, that it was a normal afro hairdo. But eventually, he came around to admitting that there is something else going on there, that it can't be all her hair. Over the course of time, he, at different times, postulated that it was an arm, a handbag, another person's head, or a hat. Ah, the joy of a vivid imagination! Isn't make-believe grand?
Jim and I feel that the most likely thing is that the body, that is, the torso of Lovelady was blackened and merged with the black hair of the African-American woman. And you have to admit that it rather looks like somebody took a black felt pen to her hair. I'm not saying that that is how they did it, but that's how it looks.
And since I've got you looking at the picture, you might as well take note of the weird figure crammed up against Doorman's left side- impinging on his neck and shoulder and even his face. He is Black Tie Man, and he consists of two white stripes and a bulb. That is his whole image: two white stripes and a bulb. Most people do not even take him for a human being. I didn't the first time I saw it. And Black Tie Man cannot possibly be real. Where, for instance, is his right arm?
Here is what I am talking about. Do you see the white blotch? And then the black below it? That is Obfuscated Man.
Now, people like to castigate Jim and me, but what they don't do is account for those weird blotches.
For instance, Doyle tried to say that the white blotch is a JACKET lying over the shoulder of the man whose arms are surrounding his non-existant head. An actual jacket.
Then, do you see the black woman? Look at her hair. Mentally, just look at her hair and nothing else. You notice that it's rather bizarre, the enormous size of it and the werid shape of it. Just compare it to the black woman to her right (our left), whose hair looks normal. Well, for the longest time, Doyle tried to say that there was nothing unusual about her hair, that it was a normal afro hairdo. But eventually, he came around to admitting that there is something else going on there, that it can't be all her hair. Over the course of time, he, at different times, postulated that it was an arm, a handbag, another person's head, or a hat. Ah, the joy of a vivid imagination! Isn't make-believe grand?
Jim and I feel that the most likely thing is that the body, that is, the torso of Lovelady was blackened and merged with the black hair of the African-American woman. And you have to admit that it rather looks like somebody took a black felt pen to her hair. I'm not saying that that is how they did it, but that's how it looks.
And since I've got you looking at the picture, you might as well take note of the weird figure crammed up against Doorman's left side- impinging on his neck and shoulder and even his face. He is Black Tie Man, and he consists of two white stripes and a bulb. That is his whole image: two white stripes and a bulb. Most people do not even take him for a human being. I didn't the first time I saw it. And Black Tie Man cannot possibly be real. Where, for instance, is his right arm?