Appreciation of Arnold Newman's Works

This is an amazingly bold and rigorous photographic masterpiece. In the photo, a grand piano occupies four fifths of the picture. The composer is in a corner, and there is a subtle sense of melody between the characters and the piano. At the same time, the big triangle formed by the piano cover and the column echoes the small triangle formed by the composer's meditation, just like the variation of the main theme in music on different instruments with different timbres.

Newman constantly changed the position and posture of the characters during the filming process, and * * * took 26 negatives. After careful screening, one of them was selected and boldly deleted in post-production to form this masterpiece.

Shooting in Picasso's residence, Newman planned to shoot in Picasso's studio at that time, but Picasso was not interested in the photographer who asked for shooting at first, and only gave Newman 1 hour. As a result, they took five hours, and this photo became Picasso's most distinctive and widely circulated portrait. The photographer wanted to show Picasso's keen eyes and added cutting lines to the picture. This is a cut-out photo, and the eyes seem to point directly at your heart.