Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: Face to Face: Selected Portraits 1977-2005

Simple,direct,andpenetrating,thecelebratedphotographerTimothyGreenfield-Sandersportrayshissubjectslikeapainterfromanotherage.Thankstohis11x14aFulmer&Schwing,anoldwoodenboxdated1905,whichheusesasifhewereusingapaletteandbrush,heproducesportraitsthatarerichindetailwithoutbeingoverlypsychological.Thepoignantposesandexpressionshecapturesinhisstraightforwardimagesconveyasenseoftheperson.LikeRembrandtandVel??zquezdepictingthegreatfiguresoftheirtime,Greenfield-Sandersfocuseshislensontodayasicons:artists,architects,writers,scientists,actors,directors,musiciansartists,architects.UndoubtedlyoneofGreenfield-Sandersasgreatestmeritsishisbeingabletolimitthedistancethatseparatestheportraitfromtheobserver.Thisbeautifullyproducedvolumebringstogetheranimpressiveselectionofportraitstakenbetween1977andthepresentwithover100neverpublishedbefore.Thejuxtapositionoftheportraitsaddsacompellingdimensiontotheindividualportraits.TheintensityofElaineandWillemdeKooningorNormanMailerandGoreVidalmultipliesastheyappearnexttoeachotheronthepage.WilliamWegmanandRichardHamiltonleantowardeachother,towardsomekindofcosmiccenter.MartinScorseseandStevenSpielbergseemtoconfirmthenotionthatadirectorisintotalcontrol.AndpornstarBrianaBanks,lookeverybitlikeapornstar.