The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten

Robert Weingarten
9781932543339 / 1932543333
The Portrait Unbound

The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten

Robert Weingarten
9781932543339 / 1932543333
Publisher High Museum of Art 2010
Edition Hardcover , 120 Pages
Genres Portrait photography
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Publisher's description

Traditional portraiture proceeds from the assumption that we can learn about a person by looking at their face. But crucial biographical truths are rarely visible on the surface. Robert Weingarten (born 1941) addresses this with The Portrait Unbound, in which his “portraits” of 21 eminent Americans–among them playwrights, musicians, scientists, architects and actors–show not physical appearances but the subjects’ memories and associations. Thus Stephen Sondheim is represented by musical staff paper and is superimposed on Seurat’s “La Grande Jatte,” and Colin Powell is figured in a somber composition based on the mausoleum-esque slabs of the Vietnam War Memorial. Other subjects include Hank Aaron, Edward Albee, Buzz Aldrin, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Chuck Close, Frank Gehry, Jane Goodall, Billy Graham, Dennis Hopper, Quincy Jones, Carl Lewis, Sandra Day O’Connor, Alice Waters and James Watson. Includes a bonus DVD.

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Book title The Portrait Unbound
Subtitle Photographs by Robert Weingarten
Alternative title The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten
Photographer Robert Weingarten
ISBN 10 1932543333 / 1-932543-33-3       
ISBN 13 9781932543339 / 978-1-932543-33-9
Publisher High Museum of Art
Publish date Jun 2010
Publish year 2010
Genre Portrait photography
Book format Hardcover
Pages 120 Pages
Dimensions 22,75 x 31,75 cm / 9 x 12.5 inches

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