Literature

“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it.”~ Pablo Picasso 1881-1973“The Maestro’s villa was a photographer’s nightmare with his boisterous children bicycling through vast rooms already crowded with canvasses. I eagerly accepted Picasso’s alternative suggestion to meet later in Vallauris at his ceramic gallery.“He will never be here” the gallery owner commented when my assistant and two hundred pounds of equipment arrived.“He says the same thing to every photographer”To everyone’s amazement , the old “lion” not only kept his photographic appointment with me but was prompt and wore a new shirt. He could partially view himself in my large format lens and intuitively moved to complete the composition.”~ Yousuf Karsh Of course Picasso was one of the most influential artist’s of the 20th Century and was much photographed. But this surely is one of the most insightful and intelligent of all the images we have of him.A perfect rendezvous of two giants in their own field.