The circular depth of field appears to be field curvature -- the lens is unsharp in the corners. Normally it's considered an optical defect, but it may be desirable for some pictures, such as this one.

Little Lord Chucky

Or he'll steal your soul.

This is most likely a Petzel-type lens. These lenses are enjoying somewhat of a resurgence due to the unique look they give an image.

I'm expecting this tyke to fly away any second.

The most interesting thing about this photo to me is the way the photographer captured areas of focus and unfocus. DOF seems to be circular. Perhaps someone with large format experience can talk about this.

A Malfoy ancestor to be sure.

Those are some awesome tomato bushes....no stakes and really lush, sturdy foliage. One forgets that growers of that era had a lot of good manure available literally everywhere!!

[There are stakes aplenty in this photo. - Dave]

Looking perhaps as a prototype for the munchkins of the Wizard of oz movie. Thirty years before the filming.

It seems that every kid in those days was dressed as bully-bait, except, perhaps, for the bullies.

This picture reminds me of a cartoon I saw about 60 yrs. ago which simply had the caption:

"I'm not raising my son to be a Marine."

That book inspired a whole generation of mothers to dress their sons like this. Poor kid!

and posing nicely, except for that fidgety little thumb!

There was a little girl (or maybe that's a boy)
Who Had a Little Curl
Right in the middle of her forehead
And when she was good, she was very, very good
And when she was bad, she inspired a book/film named The Shining.

"What the Earl saw was a graceful, childish figure in a black velvet suit, with a lace collar, and with lovelocks waving about the handsome, manly little face, whose eyes met his with a look of innocent good-fellowship." (Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett)

However, in The Enchanted Castle, author Edith Nesbit wrote: "Gerald could always make himself look interesting at a moment's notice (...) by opening his grey eyes rather wide, allowing the corners of his mouth to droop, and assuming a gentle, pleading expression, resembling that of the late little Lord Fauntleroy who must, by the way, be quite old now, and an awful prig."

This looks like it should be from a Steven King story. There is something creepy about the child's gaze.