"Le couple" is one of the earlier stills that Herbert List shot at the Baltic Sea in 1933. It shows two identical pins on a sandy beach. As a gay artist List developed a language to symbolize love and friendship between same sex couples. Reducing his search for those symbols to the gay context though might be a bit too limiting. A few years before he took a picture of two bicycles leaning against each other on the same beach. The careful viewer can see though that is a male and a female bike. And on top, in the background, we can make out two men in a rowing boat.
The symbolic couple fascinates...