“You can’t get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface.  The surface is all you’ve got.  You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface.  All that you can do is manipulate that surface–gesture, costume, expression–radically and correctly.”

-Richard Avedon

Katharine Hepburn

Marilyn Monroe

Marlon Brando

Judy Garland

Marlene Dietrich