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Here's a quick and dirty approximation of how Richter's images appeared - black and white, contrasty, all standard-sized, mostly frontal or no more than 3/4 views, with little to no background (I can't remember exactly). The first of these, to the left, probably comes closest to his version of images (again, standard encyclopedia head shots). What do you think?
Image information: 1. Toni Morrison, 1931-present (I know, it's outside the parameters, but this is still an exercise), literature; 2. Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958, science (microbiology); 3. Amilie Emmy Noether [note the slight correction to my error below in regard to Eleftheria's suggestion], 1882-1935, science (mathematics).
Gerhard Richter's 48 Tafeln (48 Portraits) has recently been put up in the National Portrait Gallery in London. All of Richter’s portraits of ‘great nineteenth- and twentieth-century cultural figures’ - specifically: composers, philosophers, literateurs, and scientists - are of white males. What women and men who would not describe themselves as ‘white’, might be included? This blog is devoted to that question, and we invite you to join us in devising 49 Tafeln (to go Richter one better!).
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
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