{"id":3963,"date":"2011-05-17T08:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T08:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2011-05-17T08:20:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T08:20:43","slug":"an_interview_wi_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Platon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2011\/05\/qa_platon_photographer\">The Economist:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>FEW photographers find themselves grasping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the hand, facing down Robert Mugabe or eliciting a grin from Binyamin Netanyahu&#8211;all within a 72-hour period, no less. Platon, a London-raised and New York-based photographer, is the keen eye behind &#8220;Power: Portraits of World Leaders&#8221; (Chronicle Books), a book of 150 photographs of world leaders, all of them taken at the United Nations.<br \/>\nThis collection is full of surprises and affirmations alike: Hugo Ch\u00e1vez has all the penetrability of an Easter Island statue; Victor Yushchenko could be a friendly school principal; and Muammar Qaddafi is a villain straight out of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;. Securing the portraits required tenacity, quick reflexes and the wiles of a fixer. More Intelligent Life spoke with Platon, a staff photographer at the New Yorker, about his adventures in assembling his portraits.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2011\/05\/qa_platon_photographer\">The Economist:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>FEW photographers find themselves grasping Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the hand, facing down Robert Mugabe or eliciting a grin from Binyamin Netanyahu&#8211;all within a 72-hour period, no less. Platon, a London-raised and New York-based photographer, is the keen eye behind &#8220;Power: Portraits of World Leaders&#8221; (Chronicle Books), a book of 150 photographs of world leaders, all of them taken at the United Nations.<br \/>\nThis collection is full of surprises and affirmations alike: Hugo Ch\u00e1vez has all the penetrability of an Easter Island statue; Victor Yushchenko could be a friendly school principal; and Muammar Qaddafi is a villain straight out of &#8220;Star Wars&#8221;. Securing the portraits required tenacity, quick reflexes and the wiles of a fixer. More Intelligent Life spoke with Platon, a staff photographer at the New Yorker, about his adventures in assembling his portraits.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,21,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}