Aisa/Everett Da Vinci’s ‘The Mona Lisa’
Many years ago, Vienna-based photographer Erich Lessing received a special phone call from a woman in Paris, inviting him to spend 25 minutes with “The Mona Lisa” in the Louvre Museum. “The Mona Lisa, not under glass. Nude,” Lessing said in an interview with Speakeasy. “I said, wait a moment. I would take the next plane.”
So he had 25 minutes to photograph “The Mona Lisa” unprotected by glass, “the way I wanted to photograph it,...
Many years ago, Vienna-based photographer Erich Lessing received a special phone call from a woman in Paris, inviting him to spend 25 minutes with “The Mona Lisa” in the Louvre Museum. “The Mona Lisa, not under glass. Nude,” Lessing said in an interview with Speakeasy. “I said, wait a moment. I would take the next plane.”
So he had 25 minutes to photograph “The Mona Lisa” unprotected by glass, “the way I wanted to photograph it,...
- 11/16/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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