From Tim Evanson, on Facebook this morning, his image for 16 days to Halloween:
(#1) Hunky Halloween Hamlet, let’s call him Hunklet, contemplating Peter Pumpkin (who really should have a grinning face carved in him) instead of Yorick’s grinning skull
The Shakespearean context (written as connected text rather than as poetic lines):
(#2) “Here hung those lips that I have kissed” — so Hamlet cries in iambs dread
(though I note that #1 could be read as God — or Zeus / Jupiter — surveying the Earth; everybody sing: “He’s got the whole world in His hands”)
I then wondered aloud on Facebook about the source of #1; I thought that both the model and the photographer deserved credit.
On to a Google Images search, which turned up a whole “fashion guy with sexy naked torso holding pumpkin” series on the Depositphoto site, but the site requires a paid membership to download any of the images. On the other had, the photos were credited there to Tverdohlib.com, triggering a fresh search.
Google maintained that there is no server tverdohlib.com, but I thought to try just tverdohlib, and that got me
which is a 123RF (AI Generator Tools) site for Volodymyr Tverdokhlib (United States) — note spelling of his name. Ah, first finding: #1 isn’t an ordinary photograph, but a piece of digital art created using AI tools. Though it’s entirely possible, even likely, that VT started with his own photographs of a specific model; VT the creator, the digital artist, is a professional photographer based in L.A.
A search on “Tverdokhlib pumpkin naked torso” then got me a Dreamstime page for (some of) VT’s images of a muscular athletic male (with naked torso) holding pumpkin(s) — but again a paid membership is required for downloading. So I can’t show you any more of VT’s hunky pumpkin delights, but you can unearth them for himself. It’s fascinating stuff, even more interesting when you can look at several of the images together, to see VT playing with the composition of the images.
Musical note. From Wikipedia:
“He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” is a traditional African-American spiritual, first published in 1927. It became an international pop hit in 1957–58 in a recording by English singer Laurie London, which is one of the best-selling gospel songs of all time. The song has also been recorded by many other singers and choirs, including Mahalia Jackson, Marian Anderson, Judy Garland and Nina Simone.
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