Friday Five: Five Portraits I Loved This Week

Sometimes one person and a camera is still enough

1. Philippe Halsman’s 1949 multitasking portrait of Jean Cocteau. This one looks like my brain feels, only with fried chicken instead of cigarettes.

   

2. The “Godfather of Neo-Soul” vibraphonist Roy Ayers, who passed this month. The Best of Roy Ayers is worth your time this weekend.

   

3. Librarian and archaeologist Manuel Esteve Guerrero Magneto-ing it up with a Corinthian helmet that was unearthed in Spain in the late 1930s.

   

4. Claude Monet color matching among some of his Water Lilies

   

5. Nadav Kander’s double-exposed Peter Gabriel (Kander’s entire body of work is breathtakingly good)