Circa 1921. (This print has been noticeably retouched, probably for use in a newspaper or other publication.) Circa 1920. Circa 1925. (Four images.) Publicity for "The General", 1927. (Three images.) From "The Electric House", 1922. Circa 1930. (Two images.) Circa 1930-31. 1930. (Two images.) Publicity for "Free and Easy", 1930, posing with a photograph of Lon Chaney. By George Hurrell, 1930. * By Clarence Sinclair Bull, circa 1928. (Three images.) Circa 1930-31. (Two images.) By George Hurrell, 1930. * Sadly, the only photographers I've been able to identify here are George Hurrell and Clarence Sinclair Bull. I recently saw the wonderful Hurrell profile portrait above * in a gorgeous contemporary print by author, photographer, and archivist Mark Alan Vieira; it inspired the whole post. I have to admit that I've not seen much of Keaton's work. And like most people, I'm sure, I've always found him a bit odd-looking; that droopy "Stone Face" and protuberant eyes. But gathering these photographs - always finding far more to share than I'd planned, constitutionally unable to exclude another and yet another "fabulous" image - I began to find that odd face rather beautiful. A strange beauty, beautiful in the way Peter Lorre could be beautiful. I'm grateful that I'm just openminded enough to still allow myself new, broader ideas of what might exemplify that overused and completely subjective word.