"The power of Bachman’s photo no doubt comes from its contrast — white men dressed as if for war rush up to a black woman standing serenely in a summer dress and ballet flats with her arms crossed, as if being offered up for arrest — and the way it sums up emotional resilience in the face of physical power. Part of what makes Bachman’s photo so strong is that Evans does not seem to engage at all in a terribly frightening moment. Indeed, many online responses to the image compared her to a goddess, which convey something of her nearly supernatural calm coupled with the fact that the police seem to be thrown backwards by an invisible force"
Read more: http://hyperallergic.com/311570/an-art-historical-perspective-on-the-baton-rouge-protest-photo-that-went-viral/ The Artist Statements of the Old Masters
“If the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?” |
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