Anthony Barboza portrait of 1970s icon Pat Evans
BARBOZA, ANTHONY (PAT EVANS). Black Beauty / Model Pat Evans
New York, 1970s, printed 2012
Gelatin silver print. 12 ¼ x 10 in. image on 17 x 10 ½ in. sheet. Light wear, crease in blank margin. Signed and dated 2012 by Barboza.
This is a splendid Anthony Barboza portrait of Pat Evans, the celebrated 1970s model, designer, and icon of Black beauty.
Anthony Barboza (b. 1944) is perhaps most famous for his portraits of musicians, dancers, models, and writers and for his photojournalist, fashion, and editorial spreads in countless magazines. His work has been exhibited in many solo and group shows and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Cornell University, the Brooklyn Museum, the Schomburg Center – NYPL, and the National Portrait Gallery, among others.
This fabulous portrait of Pat Evans, here headed “Black Beauty,” was chosen to be the front cover of a major recent monograph, Eyes Dreaming: Photography by Anthony Barboza (Getty Museum, 2022). Evans declared, “Barboza’s creative talent is unmatched, as anyone fortunate enough to be part of his photo shoots will tell you.”
“When I do a portrait, I’m doing a photograph of how that person feels to me; how I feel about the person, not how they look. I find that in order for the portraits to work, they have to make a mental connection as well as an emotional one. When they do that, I know I have it”—Anthony Barboza
Provenance: Anthony Barboza
$6,500