Ritratti e foto tessera

Alec Soth riflette sul concetto di ritratto in un post intitolato "Portraits and mug shots". Il pezzo parte da una citazione di Richard Avedon che definisce il ritratto fotografico 

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks. He's implicated in what's happening, and he has a certain real power over the result. The way someone who's being photographed presents himself to the camera and the effect of the photographer's response on that presence is what the making of a portrait is about.

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