Steve Jobs' favorite portrait of himself

" "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo DaVinci " - Steve Jobs.

No color, no background, no frills. Only the essentials are in this picture, just the way Jobs would have liked it.

The intense stare, magnified by the highlights of his glasses, was the result of a question asked by Albert Watson, the photographer - "What do you do when someone disagrees with you but you know you're right?" (paraphrased).

This image has been cropped and resized from the original photo to adapt to the cover of his biography by Walter Isaacson. But consider the composition. The white background fills the space in an asymmetric way - Jobs' left shoulder is raised higher than his right, creating an imbalanced fill.

Imbalance does not mean imperfect. If it were balanced and symmetric, the image would look unnatural and posed. But the imbalance creates this natural composition.

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