Portrait of Choice

Major Claude Eatherly, pilot at Hiroshima, 1963
Photo credit: Richard Avedon | view here.

As typical as it is to choose an Avedon when told to pick a portrait, I did it anyways. Avedon was the master of capturing the real moment. And trying to capture a real moment with actors, politicians, and musicians isn't exactly that easy. This portrait stands out most to me, however, because the only reason this man was photographed was because he was involved in dropping an atomic bomb on 140,000 humans. And his expression captures the anguish I can only imagine he had to live with.