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Arts >
Photo > USA > Grey Villet 1927-2000
Richard Loving kisses his wife
Mildred
as he arrives home from work,
King and Queen County, Virginia, April 1965.
© Estate of Grey Villet
http://life.time.com/history/
richard-and-mildred-loving-grey-villet-photos-1966/
Grey Villet 1927-2000
In the spring of 1965,
my husband, Grey
Villet,
was given a Life Magazine assignment
to
photograph the Lovings,
an interracial married couple
then embroiled in legal tangles
after their arrest for miscegenation
in
Virginia.
Grey did not concern himself
with those entanglements.
He chose,
as he did in every essay
we ever
worked on together,
to seek out the literal heart of the matter:
a
love story.
Emotional content always mattered most to Grey
in his work and pursuit of images
“as real as
real could get.”
It’s what gives his take on the Loving family
its intimacy and strength.
Grey was a purist in his approach
to every
essay he shot.
Quiet as a cat,
he seemed almost to disappear
as he worked.
Unlike many other celebrated photographers,
he avoided posing his subjects,
refused to manipulate the action
and simply waited patiently
for telling
moments to emerge,
in the belief that reality would supply more truth
than any imposition of his own ego.
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/
the-heart-of-the-matter-love/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Grey_Villet
https://www.npr.org/2016/11/04/
500728936/loving-tells-story-of-supreme-court-ruling-
legalizing-interracial-marriage
https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2017/mar/29/
the-lovings-in-pictures
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2012/02/03/
146307220/the-loving-war-
how-black-history-is-both-black-and-white
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/18/
the-heart-of-the-matter-love/
https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/
the-loving-story-photographs-by-grey-villet
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/
arts/design/the-loving-story-at-international-center-of-photography.html
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/
essay-6/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/07/
usa.humanrights
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/
us/06loving.html
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