R.B. Kitaj- photographed by Richard Avedon: This portrait strikes me, instantly, becuase of the eye contact. What stands out besides the eye contact is the texture of Kitaj's skin and the over-all expression. I'm not very good with labeling poeple's emotions- what Kitaj's expression reveals to me is a sense of spiritual communication. Perhaps his communicated guilt or shame but that is not the key to the photograph. The key is the fact that Richard Avedon made himself and the camera invisible in the photgraph. Kitaj seems unaware that there is a camera anywhere near him- he looks as though he is looking in a mirror and truly not liking what he sees.
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