Artwork Title: Portrait Study of One Woman:  Portrait of Anne-Marie Edvina

Portrait Study of One Woman: Portrait of Anne-Marie Edvina, 1961

Frank Horvat

The pleasant, unremarkable face of 21-year-old Anne Marie Edvina appears to have a remarkable quality: it becomes a different face in the eyes of every photographer who looks at it. Here she is seen as 10 others see her: 10 girls and no two of them alike. She is a sullen siren, a serene mother, even (in a simple shot by Frank Horvat) her normal self. The portraits were made by 10 photographers for an exhibition in Paris. Using Anne as their only model, they were free otherwise to experiment with an lighting, make-up or printing techniques they wished. In so doing they showed that the camera can be as wonderfully changeable as a pretty girl. (Life Magazine May 26, 1961; Google books.com) The first and only "Salon International du Portrait Photographique" was held April 28-May 24,1961 at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. For this major event, 30 well-known photographers were invited to photograph just one subject, the 21-year-old Anne-Marie Edvina, who was chosen for the "rare symmetry of her face", according to a New York Herald Tribune article reporting on this important exhibition. The photographic results were exhibited at the BN and were published in the New York Herald Tribune, Life International, the Journal de Seine et Oise, EPOCA, Europeo and many other publications. The photographers ranged from surrealists Man Ray and Maurice Tabard to fashion photographer William Klein to photojournalists, such as Robert Doisneau and Edouard Boubat. Illustrated: Life Magazine, June 19, 1961; and New York Herald Tribune, April 27, 1961 (http://www.vintageworks.net/exhibit/detail.php/279/1/0/0/23636)
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