Young Farmers (photograph)

[1][2] The picture depicts three young men standing in an empty landscape, wearing fine suits, hats and canes.

The J. Paul Getty Museum website describes the picture: "Perhaps most striking about this portrait of three farmers walking along a country road on their way to a dance is their formal dress: each wears a hat and suit and carries a walking stick", "This formal appearance removes them from the reality of their occupations.

Each man is seen from the side, glancing over his shoulder at the photographer; they stop only for a moment before continuing on their journey.

Twenty or 30 years earlier, such clothes did not exist at a price which peasants could afford."

[4] The three young men all came from the village of Dünebusch in western Germany and were likely on their way to a dance in the nearby town of Halscheid.