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Lot Essay
« En photographie, un portrait est l’image de quelqu’un qui sait qu’il est photographié. Une « séance de pose » est un échange d’émotions. La photographie nait à l’instant où ces émotions se rencontrent. » – Richard Avedon cité par Charles Michener, Newsweek, 16 octobre 1976.
Dans ce saisissant cadrage serré de Pablo Picasso (1958) publié dans le livre Observations (1959), Richard Avedon capture l’essence brute et l’intensité du grand maître, la rigueur des contrastes transforme la topographie de son visage en un paysage d'une force psychologique rare.
“In photography, a portrait is an image of someone who knows they are being photographed. A ‘sitting’ is an exchange of emotions. Photography comes into being at the moment those emotions meet.” - Richard Avedon, quoted by Charles Michener, Newsweek, October 16, 1976.
In this striking close-up of Pablo Picasso (1958), published in the book Observations (1959), Richard Avedon captures the raw essence and intensity of the great master; the rigor of the contrasts transforms the topography of his face into a landscape of rare psychological power.
Dans ce saisissant cadrage serré de Pablo Picasso (1958) publié dans le livre Observations (1959), Richard Avedon capture l’essence brute et l’intensité du grand maître, la rigueur des contrastes transforme la topographie de son visage en un paysage d'une force psychologique rare.
“In photography, a portrait is an image of someone who knows they are being photographed. A ‘sitting’ is an exchange of emotions. Photography comes into being at the moment those emotions meet.” - Richard Avedon, quoted by Charles Michener, Newsweek, October 16, 1976.
In this striking close-up of Pablo Picasso (1958), published in the book Observations (1959), Richard Avedon captures the raw essence and intensity of the great master; the rigor of the contrasts transforms the topography of his face into a landscape of rare psychological power.