Dick
“There’s an element of sexuality in all portraiture; the
moment you stop to look, you’ve been picked up. And you may look at a portrait with a concentration
you’re not allowed in life. Is there any situation in life where you can stare at the Duchess of Alba
for half an hour without ending up dead at the hands of the Duke? A confrontational, erotic quality,
I think, should underline all portraiture.But in the history of art before Schiele, this
confrontational quality of portraiture was almost never explored, so far as I
know, in explicitly erotic images. Even eroticized portraits tended to be voyeuristic rather than confrontational.”—Richard Avedon,
Borrowed Dogs
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