Tamara

Anthropomorphis 2017

Bar Girl in a Brothel, Havana, Cuba, 1954 - Eve Arnold

“Though her pictures of celebrities, particularly those of Monroe…have come to define her in the mainstream, Arnold also chronicled the lives of the poor and the dispossessed, travelling to Cuba, Russia and Afghanistan, as well as China…This picture was taken on assignment in Cuba. At first glance, it could be a film still or one of Arnold’s backstage shots of a star in repose, but it is a portrait of individual sadness and isolation, as well as great beauty. Once, when asked what made a good portrait, the great Cartier-Bresson replied: “I am looking for the silence in somebody.” Eve Arnold captured, and transmitted, that silence again and again…“