Portraits — 1982
Anselm, Portrait No. 12
One of twelve sittings from the Anselm series — a quiet study of a face becoming itself in front of a slow camera.
Artist's Statement
Anselm sat for me twelve times across the autumn of 1982, in a borrowed apartment near the Canal Saint-Martin. He arrived punctually, removed his coat in the same way each time, and waited.
What the camera caught, in this twelfth and final plate, was the moment he stopped performing patience and simply was — a face I had been waiting for without knowing it.
- Place
- Paris, France
- Year
- 1982
- Category
- Portraits
- Medium
- Silver gelatin print, 30×40 cm
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