In 1925, the great Vanity Fair photo-essayist Edward Steichen intuitively captured the complementary relationship that existed between Chaplin’s screen character and his real life celebrity persona by photographing the man and his shadow. In life, Charlie self-consciously cultivated a star image of himself as a dapper and sophisticated lover—the mirror image opposite of boyishly innocent and asexual Charlie. (For the finest collection of Chaplin photographs see Jeffrey Vance’s Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema).