What happens when a photographer encounters a subject who makes his or her living in front of the camera? Is the result truth or illusion?
In some of these portraits, published in The New York Times’s Culture sections this year, the photographer and subject appear to be collaborating. In others, they seem to be vying for control of the frame.
The photographer wishes to be the arbiter of whether such images portray “truth.” But it is you, the viewer, who ultimately must judge.
Portraits of the Artists – NYTimes.com.