Becoming Hemingway
Very few of us are able to write as well as Ernest Hemingway, but you'd be amazed at how many folks resemble the famed author and journalist. Photographer Henry Hargreaves attended this year's annual Hemingway look-alike contest in Florida, held on the legendary writer's birthday on July 21 and featuring 150 aspiring Hemingways.
Hargreaves, a veritable Hemingway enthusiast himself, used willing participants to recreate Hemingway's famous photographic portrait, taken in 1957 by Yousuf Karsh.
"I told each sitter about the original shoot with Karsh: how Hemingway just returned from Africa and a terrible plane crash and was in agony; asked them to contemplate the amazing amount of pain he was in but the equally amazing focus he had to sit quietly for a portrait," Hargreaves shared with the Huffington Post. "Everything came together to take them to a place of pure expression: being Hemingway, inhabiting him; looking like, even feeling like The Man himself. Just what I was after."
With the images below, Hargreaves explains his inspiration, and how he set about immortalizing the event with his recreations of the famous photo.
Photos and words from Henry Hargreaves. Click here to see more of his work.
