ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ~

 

G I A C O M E T T I

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON SPOTS ALBERTO GIACOMETTI ~

Paris, 1961

 "The week after Giacometti's death, Paris Match published a remarkable

photograph of him which had been taken nine months earlier. It

shows him alone in the rain, crossing the street near his studio in

Montparnasse. Although his arms are through the sleeves, his raincoat

is hiked up to cover his head. Invisibly, underneath the raincoat, his shoulders 

are hunched.

. . . He has the air of a survivor." 

J O H N     B E R G E R

Portraits

John Berger on Artists

Verso, 2015

One of the gem books of 2015