In parallel with his magazine activities, Francis Giacobetti travelled the world to create a gallery of portraits immortalising one hundred and seventy talented men and women of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Each time it was the same ritual. First he made a traditional black and white portrait, then, with the help of an ophthalmological camera of his own invention, he photographed his subject’s pupil. A window into the soul, unique, in essence. The Dalai Lama, César, Fidel Castro, and even Luciano Pavarotti took part in the exercise. His favourite? The English painter Francis Bacon, with whom he realised many portraits, today still little known and that we are delighted to offer you here.
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