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Эта история, вернее диалог с выдающимся фотографом двадцатого столетия Arnold Newman.
В интервью ему задали вопрос, отражались ли когда-либо его персональные чувства на фотографиях его моделей. На что он ответил, что фотографирую известного немецкого промышлинника Крупп, и зная, что тот в своё время дружил и сотрудничал с Гитлером, построил так снимок, что на нём он кажется дьяволом.
GI: Have your personal feelings about someone ever affected the way you chose to photograph that person?
AN: There's only twice I ever tried to deliberately show an individual as bad, and that was Alfried Krupp and Richard Nixon. Actually, I didn't do it on purpose to Nixon -- he did it to himself.
I deliberately put a knife in Krupp's back, visually. He was a friend of Hitler's and Hitler let him use prisoners as slave labor. If the prisoners fell, he just unchained them and they went directly into the crematoriums in Auschwitz.
Krupp's people realized I was Jewish, and they were worried that I might not be kind to him. I was trying to figure a way to show who he really was without being obvious. I lit from both sides and I said, "Would you lean forward." And my hair stood up on end. The light from the sides made him look like the devil. It's an un-retouched photograph. He actually was a handsome man.
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