Friday, November 11, 2022

Idea & Event

"As a language, Garbo’s singularity was of a conceptual order, Audrey Hepburn’s of a substantial order. Garbo’s face is an Idea, Hepburn’s an Event."

- Roland Barthes, "Garbo’s Face"

From Mythologies, 1957



Idea by George Hurrell, 1930



Event by Leonard Fried, 1951





 

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