The National Portrait Gallery
Why we didn't go the natural portrait gallery, the same day as the national gallery, I don't know. Maybe the the later admission time... In any event, there was a portrait prize going on, which was worth seeing in theory. I don't know a whole lot about photo, the only photo background i have is PH101 from FIT that was a fashion photography classes, and some theory based on the reproducibility image (yep, I'm talking about Benjamin) so i found the images at least visually interesting to look at.
I really enjoyed the contemporary portrait gallery, seeing the blood head was nice, just as a contemporary art icon piece having to do quite literally with the body and identity. One of the older proratists I made a point of seeing, was Jane Austin, popular English writer author of Pride and Prejudice a personal high school favorite. My Favorite show, was the portraits of English people in New York City. I am a New York's New Yorker, and fall within Saachi's description "New Yorkers think the sun rises and sets with the (NY) Times". I loved the simple black and white portraits and captions along side the image to relate each person to their backdrop.
(photo via emily's blog)
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