This Month’s A Thousand Words

A man in white kabuki makeup sits on a subway bench and applies dark lip color with a long-handled brush as he looks into a circular handheld mirror. His glossy, black, pulled-back hair highlights a widow’s peak accentuated by the white makeup. — ©Thomas Clark

To celebrate The Sun’s fiftieth year, we’re reprinting images from our archive.

This image of Thomas Clark’s is an exceedingly quirky moment — someone putting on elaborate stage makeup in a gritty subway stop — but it doesn’t feel staged or forced in any way. Instead it feels like a lucky moment Clark was pleased to capture, and we were fortunate to publish. We created the feature A Thousand Words to make room for more pictures exactly like this.

— Robert Graham, Art Director

View more of Clark’s work in the magazine here.
View more A Thousand Words images here.