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...other portraits, Wols uses dark shadows and flat planes to occlude the subjects' faces. But in Nicole Bouban, he strips the face of its conventional revelatory implications without resorting to heavy-handed assaults on the planes of her beauty...
Wols's photograph of his close friend Nicole Bouban (pictured) is the most visually compelling portrait displayed. Reclining on a pillow whose filigreed embroideries of butterflies merge with the platinum waves of her hair, Bouban's marmoreal face achieves the vacuity of expression associated with mannequins or dolls. Her smooth skin seems carved out of soap. But Wols's depiction is more than a trite objectification of a woman's face. Though she is reclining, this is not an image of repose. He effects the same response as that engendered in his self-portraits: the image is impossible to penetrate...
...other portraits, Wols uses dark shadows and flat planes to occlude the subjects' faces. But in Nicole Bouban, he strips the face of its conventional revelatory implications without resorting to heavy-handed assaults on the planes of her beauty...
...Wols's photograph of his close friend Nicole Bouban (pictured) is the most visually compelling portrait displayed. Reclining on a pillow whose filigreed embroideries of butterflies merge with the platinum waves of her hair, Bouban's marmoreal face achieves the vacuity of expression associated with mannequins or dolls. Her smooth skin seems carved out of soap. But Wols's depiction is more than a trite objectification of a woman's face. Though she is reclining, this is not an image of repose. He effects the same response as that engendered in his self-portraits: the image is impossible to penetrate...
...other portraits, Wols uses dark shadows and flat planes to occlude the subjects' faces. But in Nicole Bouban, he strips the face of its conventional revelatory implications without resorting to heavy-handed assaults on the planes of her beauty...