Comments on: a quote for Portrait Week http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/ photographica, miscellanea, etcetera Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Lane Collins http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1996 Hey, Hot Shot! » Blog Archive » Hey, Hot Shot! Entries: Lane Collins Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:45:43 +0000 http://alecsoth.com/blog/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1996 [...] First, Alec Soth’s Portrait Week in early March, which I’m bringing up again in April because this image really resonates with the John Singer Sargent quote Alec cited. [...] [...] First, Alec Soth’s Portrait Week in early March, which I’m bringing up again in April because this image really resonates with the John Singer Sargent quote Alec cited. [...]

]]> By: Alexandre Guirkinger http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1995 Alexandre Guirkinger Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:25:17 +0000 http://alecsoth.com/blog/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1995 2 images are crossing my minds when you speak about portraits. The first one is the painting of Velasquez "Les Menines" and its multiple portraits inside the painting : autoportrait of the painter, portrait of the queen and the king in the miror, portrait of the children looking at the queen and king being painted. About this masterpiece, the best text I have ever read is the one written by Michel Foucault as an introduction of his book "Words and things". The second image is the "Picture for Women" from Jeff Wall done in 1979. On this picture we can see Jeff Wall with his camera and his model standing on his right. They are both looking at themself through a miror. Those two images are raising a lot of question about the relation between the artist and its model, the relation between autoportrait and portrait and how in a way a portrait is allways an autoportrait... 2 images are crossing my minds when you speak about portraits. The first one is the painting of Velasquez “Les Menines” and its multiple portraits inside the painting : autoportrait of the painter, portrait of the queen and the king in the miror, portrait of the children looking at the queen and king being painted. About this masterpiece, the best text I have ever read is the one written by Michel Foucault as an introduction of his book “Words and things”.
The second image is the “Picture for Women” from Jeff Wall done in 1979. On this picture we can see Jeff Wall with his camera and his model standing on his right. They are both looking at themself through a miror.
Those two images are raising a lot of question about the relation between the artist and its model, the relation between autoportrait and portrait and how in a way a portrait is allways an autoportrait…

]]> By: stacy http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1994 stacy Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:12:18 +0000 http://alecsoth.com/blog/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1994 what a great quote! one thing i remember studying about this painting that isn't usually written about is that the fact that madame x's ears are flushed signified to viewers at the Salon that she had just been engaged in sexual intimacies, and that part of what was scandalous was to paint that, show that, and have the allusion being that it might have been the painter Himself that had caused her ear (and presumably elsewhere) to flush such a noticeable shade of pink... what a great quote!

one thing i remember studying about this painting that isn’t usually written about is that the fact that madame x’s ears are flushed signified to viewers at the Salon that she had just been engaged in sexual intimacies, and that part of what was scandalous was to paint that, show that, and have the allusion being that it might have been the painter Himself that had caused her ear (and presumably elsewhere) to flush such a noticeable shade of pink…

]]> By: SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Portrait Week http://alecsothblog.wordpress.com/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1993 SHANE LAVALETTE / JOURNAL » Blog Archive » Portrait Week Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:12:53 +0000 http://alecsoth.com/blog/2007/03/08/a-quote-for-portrait-week/#comment-1993 [...] Mr. Alec Soth oficially declairs it to be ‘Portrait Week’. In honor of this declaration, I thought I’d pick out a portrait that I love—Harry Callahan’s beautiful portrait of his wife, Eleanor, in Chicago. [...] [...] Mr. Alec Soth oficially declairs it to be ‘Portrait Week’. In honor of this declaration, I thought I’d pick out a portrait that I love—Harry Callahan’s beautiful portrait of his wife, Eleanor, in Chicago. [...]

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