The Woman in Blue

M — Buenos Aires — April 2017 — Photograph — Alex Waterhouse-Hayward

Sometimes when I take a photograph I have the idea of something that came before me in my mind. Sometimes the similarity of my photographs to earlier works (Picasso’s) is simply a coincidence. Such was almost the case in this photograph of M which I took in Buenos Aires this past April in Nora Patrich’s studio in Bella Vista. That is her work behind her. When M showed up for our photo session and took out the lovely blue silk robe it was Patrich who suggested we pose her by her painting of the woman in blue.

Dora Maar ‘Femme Assise, Robe Bleu’ 1939 by Picasso.

Link to: The Woman in Blue

Originally published at blog.alexwaterhousehayward.com.