Apropos of Dolores
This is a photo by Vivien Dorothy Maier who died in 2009 at the age of 83. Her negatives, approximately 100,000 of them, were sold off a few years earlier by the owner of the storage locker where they were kept, to pay for the unpaid charges. They were discovered at an auction. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier
Obviously when I saw this photo I immediately linked it to one of Nabokov sitting in a car. Only, eerily, he has been replaced with the face of a young girl of Lolita’s age with an enigmatic expression. I call the photo Apropos of Dolores after the title of an HG Wells book, since Wells was beloved by Nabokov.