Lust and erotic desire is in the eye of the beholder. A Lolita could seemlessly be unaware she is seducing. The first photgraph could represent the innocence of her. 
Everyone may hold her as the little girl she is, but Humbert has a different view of her.The second photograph portrays the erotic pedophilic desire Humbert sees in his sexually precocious sun-shot beauty. In his eyes , she is deemed as a sex symbol that ignites fire in his loins (p.9). Lolitaness brings to mind the forbidden lustful fruit that one may desire the most.
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