the art of the political portrait
Ich habe es gestern schon getwittert, verweise aber heute gerne auch noch einmal hier im Blog auf einen tollen Artikel im ebenso tollen Guardian zum Thema “the art of the political portrait“. Nadav Kander wird natürlich genauso erwähnt wie Platon, beides Lieblinge von mir, wie der aufmerksame Leser dieses Blogs wissen dürfte. ;) Aber lest selbst.
Kurzer Teaser: “Lee Miller once said that a photographer has to decide what the sitter is like before taking a picture: otherwise, there’s a void. Platon (he goes by his first name) disagrees: “It’s always a blank, that’s the whole point. Preconceptions cloud your judgment and you miss things. It’s not my business to criticise or praise, just to be truthful. When I took Putin, with his mesmerising ice-blue eyes, some people thought the photo glamorised him, others that it exposed him as a relic of the cold war. I think it’s good to have these debates. It’s all up for grabs.”"
