NPG: The World’s Most Photographed
Not the New Power Generation, but the National Portrait Gallery. Went to see an exhibition called The World’s Most Photographed. Muhammad Ali, James Dean, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Queen Victoria, Mahatma Ghandi, Adolf Hitler, and John F Kennedy are the subjects. I really enjoyed seeing these high quality images of legendary people, where it would usually be fuzzy images on TV or only average quality versions in books. I actually found the Hitler display to be the most interesting and in some ways, the most revealing. He looks truly awkward in front of a camera and was clearly having photographs taken because he needed to rather than wanted to. I’ve never seen him look so real before, it was quite chilling seeing such an evil man looking so vulnerable and in the candid shots, so totally normal.
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