1、1查德阿维顿 1970年致父亲的一封信(1)Dear Dad,Im putting this in a letter because phone calls have a way of disappearing in the whatever it is.Im trying to put into words what I feel most deeply, not just about you, but about my work and the years of undefinable father and son between us.Ive never understood why I
2、ve saved the best thats in me for strangers like Stravinsky and not for my own father.mrdx44.jpgThere was a picture of you on the piano that I saw every day when I was growing up.It was by the Bachrach studio and heavily retouched and we all used to call it “Smilin Jack Avedon“it was a family joke,
3、because it was a photograph of a man we never saw, and of a man I never knew.Years later, Bachrach did an advertisement with meRichard Avedon, Photographeras a subject.Their photograph of me was the same as the photograph of you.We were up on the same piano, where neither of us had ever lived.I am t
4、rying to do something else. When you pose for a photograph, its behind a smile that isnt yours.亲爱的爸爸,我把想说的话写进信里,是因为通过电话倾诉总感觉缺点什么。我试着把内心最深的感触用语言组织出来,关于你,关于我的工作以及多年来咱们难以界定的父子关系。我一直想不透,为什么对斯特拉温斯基这种陌生人体贴、细致,而对父亲却分毫不予。2琴架上您的照片是我成长过程中每日必看的。那是巴赫拉奇画室拍摄的,经过了大量的修饰,我们曾称它是“微笑的杰克埃夫登”这是个家族笑话,因为这是一张从未谋面的男性的照片,我们素不相识。时光荏苒,巴赫拉奇为我量身定制了一个广告理查德阿维登担任摄影师。他们为我拍摄的照片跟你的那张简直如出一辙。琴架上我俩照片紧挨着,谁曾想,二人竟从未一起生活过。我想换个别的姿势。当你摆姿势拍照的时候,你脸上的微笑却不真实。3