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ITT: portraits that capture the essence of a particular author or artist. Share some favourites.

This is my favourite portrait of all time. The striking intelligence in Celine's face, handsome, a hint of melancholy reflected on the right side of his face where the light captures, and then the fucking darkness and cruelty in his shadowed left eye.

I remember hearing somewhere that supposedly a persons right eye reflects how they wish to be perceived by society, the person that you "present" to the world, and that the left eye reflects the persons true inner self. Apparently when they teach cops body language reading, they tell them to watch the suspects left eye. I always think of that when I see this picture...a true work of art.

>> No.3500467
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Not a favorite, but also wanted to point out that Houellebecq has a few fairly similar facial traits.

>> No.3500475

>>3500467
He can't hold a cigarette properly.

>> No.3500478
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His fingers, positioned as a gun ready to blow his brains out, says "just die in my sleep already" and represents Chopra very well.

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>> No.3500560
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>> No.3500599
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>> No.3500608
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>> No.3500885

>>3500608
>not choosing that pic of Mishima overlooking the Tokyo skyline.

>> No.3500902

>>3500885
I like the one I chose because it better captures the bleakness and sense of oblivion that marks his final works. The photo I posted was from November 1970 during the retrospective of his life assembles at a Tokyo department store shortly before his death.

>> No.3500904
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He even looks creepy

>> No.3500923

>>3500608

>not choosing that pic of Mishima wearing a bathing suit that leaves little to the imagination

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>>3500923

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>>3500923
this one?

>> No.3501104

>>3500953
>>3500960

Ha, what an idiot. Doesn't he know that muscles will make it harder to cut his stomach once he throws his little temper tantrum?

>> No.3501116

>>3501104
The samurai cares not for your puerile words.

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>> No.3501170

If those pictures were taken and posted today he'd get made fun of for being an ecto Asian manlet.

>> No.3501644

>>3501161

I would agree.

>> No.3501651

>>3501170
he's /fit/ as fuck for a literati.

>> No.3501659

>>3500478
Very Freudian, nice. Although that looks like it was a conscious action.

>> No.3501665
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Getting an obvious one out of the way: this is the eternal image of Nietzsche.