The secret of her good luck is that she travels light.” She conveys the widest range of expressivity (sic.) with the minimum amount of means. In the essay, Clemente describes Barron as “an elegant woman, and an elegant photographer. The book features an introductory essay by Francesco Clemente, who had collaborated with Basquiat and Warhol on paintings, and was also close to Bischofberger. That’s what I try, although I can’t always do it,” she said. I’m always trying to get some inner, spiritual feeling and to what these people’s souls are about. “I’m not interested in a superficial, setup photo.
“I knew the Factory very well so for me it was just like, ‘I’m going in, I’m going to photograph these two people, and then I’m going to leave.’ People knew I was OK, that I wasn’t going to take advantage of them, or take up their whole day, so I was allowed in.”īarron said her approach to portrait-taking hasn’t changed. Jean-Michel Basquiat by Jeannette Montgomery Barron.īarron knew him already and had photographed him before.
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