> John. > Ah yes, Ms Oats - couldn't miss recognizing her in a crowd. An iconic > personage if there ever was one. I enjoyed your essay about meeting and > photographing her. It should stimulate further PS discussion. I think > portraiture is the most challenging art. It can be a satisfying > collaboration and it is always a collaboration. Do you agree? Yes, but some subjects are more active or perhaps more skilled in the process than others. The great master, in my personal experience, was Muhammad Ali. He was, in addition to a lot of other things, a performance artist who painted himself in bold, aggressive strokes. Oates, on the other hand, leaned more toward subtlety, nuance. Which frankly surprised me. I wasn't expecting her to be as fluent in visual self-expression as she was in her expert use of language.
