Betina la plante biography of albert
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BETINA LA PLANTE: ICONIC IMAGES
Words: Dean Brierly
“In portrait photography, there is something more profound we seek inside a person, while being painfully aware that a limitation of our medium is that the inside is recordable only so far as it is apparent on the outside.”— Irving Penn
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This quote by one of the giants of the medium came to mind when I first laid eyes on the portraits of Betina La Plante.
Penn’s insight seems to be the linchpin of her photographic approach.
Betina la plante biography of albert
Although widely praised for her photographs of famous faces, La Plante doesn’t seem interested in the idea of celebrity per se. Rather, she strives to identify and communicate relatable aspects of character possessed by her subjects, renowned or otherwise.
The faces seen here, young and old alike, testify to La Plante’s ability to delve beneath surface appearance to get at lived-in aspects of character.
An unvarnished honesty informs all of her portraits, whether she’s fulfilling edit