Melvin Sokolsky on Portraits
Written on February 3rd, 2012“I believe taking someone’s portrait is an unspoken conversation in a shared space where the sitter and the maker reveal their being in a kind of silent dance of escalating expectation. When the fascination of the maker and the sitter inspires empathy or antipathy, the portrait may be enlightening.It is the mission of the viewer to decide if the resulting image is transcendent. We look at each other and dream about each other, and those dreams never ever meet except in the photograph.”