What's the worst author photo?

What's the worst author photo?

You probably saw this portrait and thought "he looks pretty normal" but...

oh no

Not bad photos. Just a diminutive person

oh dear

hes actually one sxc man!

hmmm

Wow, Kant looks like THAT?

No, that is Jacobi. Kant is the one that looks like a hobgoblin

Nah dude, when I google Kant this picture comes up labelled as Kant

kek

God, I want to bully him so bad

More often than not authors seem to be photographed exactly as represents them, intentional or no. There's also that pretty ridiculous one of Wilde with his hat and cloak but really there is none better

I like to think this was actually a candid photo, that Waugh really wanted a photo of him holding a giant novelty telephone and looking shocked to grace his books, but his publisher disagreed and used this one against his wishes.

Fucking Shel made bedtime so comforting and terrifying at the same time

wow what a beautiful lady
hey, miss!

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All photos with Satre in them are fucking bad

please, look at the penguin

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nod bad I like Ayn like my mother's friend

not sure what this hairstyle is called

the endingmyexistencebyalcoholismbeforeim50 special

They would call it a red sea because of the miraculous parting

Is that al-Baghdadi?

is that basil brush

He was aesthetic in a pretty boy way for a while? Why did he purposefully just himself like this?

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He looks luciferian.

Lol

>tfw you'll never hold evelyn waugh's divine hands

dude's got a MASSIVE dome

the Chad midpart

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The Batman

No wonder he grew the giant mustache

ayy lmao

Dilettante Valley.

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I don't know, he looks pretty good for a dead guy.

I just want to bring him back to life so I can fuck his girlfriend

Count Dracula who only feeds from your arse veins.

Why does he look so devilish?

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Autism

Asperger's.

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What IQ is this? Ascended?

>10690107
its over 9000

>maxheadefault

thats messed up, man.

Looks like the guy from how I met your motehr....

I know right, the resemblence is uncanny

>had a short story published in a small anthology
>they asked for a photograph so I took one with my webcam
>depressed and overate in the months leading to it
>turned up at the launch event
>people took tons of photograph
>heard one girl saying "god I hope that's not his tinder photo"
>left immediately and walked 7 miles home

He's a cool fella though

Holy shit was just thinking this

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Hey, sport. Do you mind deleting this? I'm kinda tired of seeing it. Get back to me as soon as you can. Chiao!

Not him

bruh

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How do you get your hair to be that shitty?

he looks like he only has two settings
>maximum bant
>maximum autismo

BIG CRANIUM

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I feel like shit for lol'ing at that

[Welcome to the internet.]

Wtf is wrong with his teeth

one eye on the tiddies, one eye on the Nothingness

PHENOTYPE

Mote her? I hardly know'er HATCHA CHA

oh god I wish I hadn't looked

John Green is that you?

>Being French is one heluva drug.

That's what happens when people who are balding let their hair grow out.

yeah well its the only one we got so you better appreciate it.

This isn't really DFW, it's Jason Seagal playing DFW in "End of the Tour"

No, it's dfw. I'm looking at an author photo of him now in my copy of Brief Interviews and it's that same pic.

dunno if its ironic or not...

didn't he invent peanut butter?

WHY DID THE ARTIST CHOOSE TO PAINT IT FROM THE ANGLE
WHAT THE FUCK WAS HE THINKING
OHHHHHH MY FUCKING GOD THIS HAS BOTHERED ME FOR YEARS

Jesus christ this board is blessed with the funniest posts

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for some reason this made me laugh more than anything else in this thread