Skip to content

Tag Archives: portraits

AVEDON CLOSE UP

Here was a man whose subjects had included the artistic deities of the 20th century–Picasso, Stravinsky, the Beatles, Chaplin, Warhol, Auden, Bacon, Nureyev, Dylan.

Near Westerkerk

Fidel is the best example, look here.
Of what, a Russian icon?
No, look up, follow the light, there.
Him? He looks nothing like Castro, he’s dumpy.
Don’t you see him reaching for the book but staring
into the shadow, in the next room at someone?
That wisp of beard on his round face, his
thin fringe of hair over the collar?
He [...]