Great Portraits

Vues de dos 2002 Malick Sidibe

Through The Online Photographer the Venice Biennale has awarded the Golden Lion lifetime achievement award for the first time to a photographer. Malick Sidibe, age 72.

I think this post is particularly appropriate on the day A New American Portrait opens at Jen Bekman. Ms Bekman and Joerg Colberg have put up a post by the exhibiting photographers, discussing what makes a great portrait.

"a portrait lives in the interaction between the photographer and the sitter, a relationship which banishes any notion of objectivity."

J. Colberg