An exhibit at D.C.'s Phillips Collection explores the intimacy and tension of portrait photography. When someone takes our picture, we usually deliver a mile-wide grin, but there's not a smile in the room at the Phillips Collection's photography show in Washington.
The exhibit mostly consists of portraits of inner lives, taken by various photographers, and it's about the encounter between the two participants. Susan Behrends Frank curated the small show, called "," which is running through Jan. 12.
Portraits are a private subject matter. Photographs from the collection of Joseph and Charlotte Lichtecnberg, have been selected for an exhibit show called "Shaping a Modern Identity." Showing the inner, private lives and the encounter between two individuals.