https://www.orartswatch.org/picture-this-notes-on-photographic-portraiture/
If you are sitting at your desk working on actuarial tables, fact checking your colleague's latest paper on accelerating erosion or typing up a pithy comment about cameras having their color stripped away from them and you are feeling a bit ..... vague, you may want to take a few minutes to hit the link above.
It's an article about the nature of portrait photography by an artist and writer I know who has sometimes visited the VSL blog. His name is Kenneth Dixon and I love the way he writes. And the way he thinks about portraiture. He sometimes goes by K.B. Dixon.
I've reviewed several of this books on the blog in the past.
I have no affiliation other than a respect for both of the genres of art in which he works. And I'm happy to know two great writers who hang out here from time to time.
Take a break. Read the article. It's calming.
Thanks. Read it. Enjoyed it. Nicely done portraits as well.
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Thanks for the link. Wonderful.
ReplyDeletei can see why you like him. And he reminds me of you
ReplyDeleteWonderful portraits with a wonderful dissertation of the process, from both sides. Great find.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much Kirk for pointing us to this excellent article.
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