Street art · Amsterdam

This grainy black-and-white portrait looks like a lost frame from…

By André Volten

This grainy black-and-white portrait looks like a lost frame from a 1960s Nouvelle Vague film, though it's actually wheatpasted onto an Amsterdam wall — a windswept grin frozen mid-laugh, tilted straight into the sky.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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