It is a fascinating and disturbing photo.
It is a photo that you would not want someone to show it to you and ask you to commit to an opinion of the boy.
No matter what you are told as to who, or what the boy is, once he is labeled, you will be able to see it in the photograph.
I agree. I have had that photo bookmarked for some time (mainly to use it to make fun of John Kerry) but I have examined it. I suppose it is a very old photo, and I figure that boy grew old and died long ago. It's a disrurbing contemplation. Heck, the kid could have been some normal shlub whose mother saved up some pennies and took him downtown to a studio, had him dressed up with borrowed clothes for the pose, and then had that photo snapped. Then back to the streets he went with his buddies to get dirty playing stickball and steal apples from somebody's cart.
Or maybe the boy was some aristocrat's son who grew up to run the family's bank.