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The don of fashion photography, Albert Watson, opens
a new show at the Palm Beach Photographic Centre.
BY TOM AUSTIN
210 BAL HARBOUR
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n a perfect winter afternoon, Fatima NeJame of the
Palm Beach Photographic Centre is admiring some
45 photographs by the Edinburgh-born Albert
Watson, who was given an Order of the British
Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II last year.
Watson's photographs have also been featured in London's National
Portrait Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
This month, Watson will also serve as the 2017 recipient of
PBPC's FOTOmentor award and the star of "Greatest Hits: A Special
Exhibition by Albert Watson," a PBPC show on view from January
24 to March 11, 2017. The New York-based Watson is, yet again, in
good company: over the 22-year history of the non-profit complex,
master photographers Duane Michaels, Gordon Parks, and Arnold
Newman have also won the award.
Watson, born blind in one eye, is all about hard work—he's
done more than 40 Rolling Stone covers and 100 Vogue covers—
expertly capturing such subjects as Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson,
