Video portraits combine videography with elements of still photography to produce something derivatively new. I can’t quite nail it down, but it seems that video portraits have the power to evoke an emotional response that’s different and in some ways more powerful than still photography.
Says Robert Wilson, who creates high definition video portraits, “You think nothing is happening at first, and then you get caught in the subtlety of it and you realize there’s much more there than first meets the eyes.”
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Diego Rivera is best known for his large dramatic murals, and perhaps for his marriage to Frida Kahlo. What’s less known is that from 1913 to 1917 he painted a series of cubist portraits. Twenty-three of these paintings, along with some sketches and illustrations, will be on display at the Meadows Museum in Dallas Texas, from June 21 through September 20, 2009.
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