Simple Pleasures: Portraits – Those We Know and Those We Don’t

Simple Pleasures: Portraits – Those We Know and Those We Don’t…

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.” — Yousuf Karsh

Patrick Demarchelier, Madonna, 1990, Selenium-toned Silver Gelatin Photograph
Jean Baptiste-Huynh, Ethiopie – Portrait I, 2005, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Yousuf Karsh, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1956, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Edouard Boubat, Lella de face sur un bateau, Bretagne, France, 1947, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Joyce Tenneson, Luminous Being, c. 1990s, Infused dyes sublimated on aluminum
Irving Penn, Colette, Paris, 1951, Selenium Toned Silver Gelatin Photograph
Clive Arrowsmith, Sammy Davis, London, 1973, Archival Pigment Photograph
Helmut Newton, Charlotte Rampling, Arles, 1973, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Fritz Henle, Mexican Beauty, 1943, Early Silver Gelatin Photograph
Diane Arbus, Jorge Luis Borges
Diane Arbus, Jorge Luis Borges In Central Park, N.Y.C., 1969, Silver Gelatin Photograph
Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock), New York, 1951, Silver Gelatin Photograph

 

Simple Pleasures is an ongoing series curated by Holden Luntz Gallery, presenting ten of our favorite pictures organized thematically.

We hope you find these photographs as a gentle reminder that there are always simple pleasures to be found.