The Century of the Body by William A. Ewing
For my contemporary photograph I also wanted to use a
portrait to maintain my subject. Here another quote from the introduction,
which made me choose this picture.
“We are beginning to think of the bodies we inhabit in much
the same way we do the cloths we wear- as changeable according to climate,
task, fashion and whim.”
The portrait I chose by Richard Avedon shows his father, who
is an old man that is sliding towards death. The facial expression of the man
is filled with pain and marked by a long life.
By using a white background the viewer can only concentrates
on the person that is shown and is not distracted by anything else.
The photographer does not try to manipulate the picture, or
make it more beautiful. He clearly wants to show the truth of age and what a
long hard live does to our body.
Today age is linked to money. The more one has, the less
evidence one can see that the body is aging.
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