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Portraits of 'Jennie' is a multi-volume photography collection by Yasushi Rikitake

Portrait of Jennie (1948), starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten Portraits Of Jennie By Yasushi Rikitake.108

Yasushi Rikitake curated this series to showcase what he considered his most artistic and aesthetically refined work. It serves as a comprehensive retrospective of his career's focus on portraiture. Scale and Scope: “Portraits of Jennie” is one of his most

Please note: Yasushi Rikitake is a contemporary Japanese composer known for lyrical, programmatic works for concert band and chamber ensembles. “Portraits of Jennie” is one of his most evocative works, inspired by the classic 1948 fantasy film Portrait of Jennie (directed by William Dieterle, based on the novel by Robert Nathan). “That is not magic,” he says

Collectors have noted that if you whisper Jennie’s name three times while looking at a high-resolution scan of , the eye in the painting appears to track your movement. Rikitake has neither confirmed nor denied this. “That is not magic,” he says. “That is simply the responsibility of looking at someone who no longer exists.”

In an era of swipeable, forgettable content, Rikitake has forced us to slow down—to stare into the grainy, bleeding eyes of a ghost and wait. Nothing happens quickly in this portrait. The beauty accumulates like frost on a window. And eventually, if you are patient, you realize that you are not looking at Jennie.