The Look of Love

The Look of Love

Available on Prime Video, BBC Select
S1 E4: By fixing the faces of loved ones in time through pictures, we can defy separation, distance, time, even death. Historian Simon Schama explores how love portraits allow us to fulfil our craving to keep the ones we love close to us. Francis Bacon's posthumous portraits of his lover and the final photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono show the power of portraiture to immortalize love.