Thank you, now I see the photo you mean.

Only rarely have I seen Vivian Maier photos with direct gaze and eye contact.  Most photos I've seen by her of people are from behind in fact.  Her photos from behind or unobserved effect a particular emotional resonance. 

In that sense (direct gaze, eye contact), this photo and the photo of VN in car share category.

This is a dreamy girl, perhaps mesmerized.

She looks a lot more friendly than VN in his car photo, and relaxed, lacks his tension, contraction, apprehension.

Are you saying through his eyes a nymphet? and through Vivian Maier's eyes?

This girl isn't portrayed the way VN & his interpreters portray his nymphets.  One has to do something somehow to make this Vivian Maier girl a nymphet. 

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Barrie Karp


On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 2:57 PM, NABOKV-L, English <nabokv-l@holycross.edu> wrote:

I am pasting in again below Vivien Maier's photograph of the young girl in the car that Barrie Karp does not seem to have gotten in the previous email.  Mary Efremov commented: "Possibly a nymphet?"
 
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