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I’m not alone in thinking that portraits are most difficult kind of pictures to take. Especially when it comes to posed portraits. Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the end of his life, said that the only thing he was interested in was the portrait. For over 20 years, I’ve shot portraits of painters, writers, photographers, filmmakers and intellectuals. Here are a few of them.
Gérard Gastaud
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