Sebastian Smee Professions : Art critic Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Sebastian Smee Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. Sebastian Smee strangenessprecisionphotography Still, there is a basic reticence about his approach that feels refreshing in today's culture of maximum exposure. Brandt did not go to great lengths to turn people into icons, nor did he presume to show their “true nature” in something so transient as a photograph. Instead, he used photography's special qualities to suggest intimate things about his subjects, things that cannot be put into words, and may not even be possible to put into pictures. Sebastian Smee iconsphotographypeople Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge. Sebastian Smee fashionignorancewriting Similar Authors Brian Sewell art-critic Arthur Danto art-critic Bernard Berenson art-critic Irving Sandler art-critic Donald Kuspit art-critic Deborah Solomon art-criticAll Authors
