Eric Pape or Chad Blair asked the candidates to share a particularly difficult episode from their life, and then to explain how they got through it and what they might have learned. High-level politicians benefit greatly, while in office, from the capacity to endure blows, learn from hardships, and then move forward. The audio interviews conducted for The Face aimed to capture something similar, something much more profound and human than political slogans and campaign soundbites. PF’s goal, like Avedon’s, was to nail one instant, one passing moment that went beyond the candidate’s usual public veneer. The iconic photos by Avedon, who died in 2004, are large format black and white portraits set against a white backdrop. The concept behind the photos in this project came from the photographer Richard Avedon whose books, “Portraits, In the American West” and “Portraits of Power,” had a profound influence on many photographers, including Civil Beat’s PF Bentley.
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