Figure 1.--This studio portrait was taken in 1927 in Vittorio Veneto, a little town in north-east Italy. The name of the photographer was Giulio Marino. The boy was Lamberto Chisini. He belonged to a middle class family. The normal approach for a studio portrait was to dress the child up in his best outfit. One option in Italy that was less popular in America and northern Europe was to photograp babies without clothing. Younger boys might be photographed bare-chested child, presumably for esthetic reasons.
Lamberto Chisini (Italy, 1927)
This studio portrait was taken in 1927 in Vittorio Veneto, a little town in north-east Italy. The name of the photographer was Giulio Marino. The boy was Lamberto Chisini. He belonged to a middle class family. The normal approach for a studio portrait was to dress the child up in his best outfit. One option in Italy that was less popular in America and northern Europe was to photograp babies without clothing. Younger boys might be photographed bare-chested child, presumably for esthetic reasons. We see quite a few of these portraits in Italy. We think they were also common in Spain and France, but we have less information. And even more so in India. There was also a middle class aspect to this phenomon. Lamberto obviously comes from a substantial middle-class family. You can tell that even without tylih clothes, it perfectly dome gair is a give away. Just showing the head without clothes was commonly with the mioddle class fir the slightly older boys, the working class swas more inclined to show the child's enite body, often with family mnmbers.
