Kipling

Richard Avedon: Borges, Buenos Aires, 1975 R. Avedon: Borges, Nueva York, 1976 “In 1975 I reached a point in my career when I was not interested in making portraits of people of power and fame. However, there were three men whose work he greatly admired and whose picture I wanted to do: Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and Francis Bacon. Their portraits involved three different types of performance: Borges gave a performance infotografiable, Beckett rejected the performance and Bacon gave a perfect performance. I photograph what I fear most, and Borges was blind. In flight to Buenos Aires tell me that Borges’s mother, whom I knew he lived all his life, had just died that morning. I assumed [...]