I had grown up with her pictures and was in awe of her, and also taken aback by the mismatch between the soft, deep, clear beauty of her black-and-white photos that contain every shade and grain of grey and the unassuming, unadorned figure she cut.
Many of we foreign reporters in the weeks before September 1973 had got into the habit of gathering in the snug downstairs bar of the Carrera hotel – across the square from Allende's sober and unadorned presidential palace, the Moneda – where many of us were staying.
I know Vinterberg was part of Dogma, with its unadorned rules of no lighting and all that, but I hardly think he's earned the right to disrespect Terry and Julie and Nic Roeg's cinematography.
And this week, 45 years after the first flash of unadorned boob in the tabloid, 29 years after the Labour MP Clare Short attempted to ban the feature, 26 years after the launch editor said he regretted introducing it and an impressive 21 years after the proprietor himself admitted it was well past its time, the Sun at last set on Page 3. Except, of course, it didn't.
He still harbours the hope that psychiatry will be put on a firm scientific basis, and he argues that other humanistic fields, such as ethics and sociology, will also benefit from brain studies.The weaving of science and memoir, in a clear and unadorned style, is especially effective in the first half of the book.
But the look, dictated by cost, confirms that Mr Dabbous's kitchen values are unadorned ingredients expressed in their purest form.
Even in Beijing, where rich expatriates and members of China's new business elite combine to boost demand for swanky accommodation, many villas and unadorned concrete frames stand empty and unattended.
"A Work in Progress" is different: affecting the same spartan elegance of the restaurant itself, it comes as three unadorned books in a cardboard box, with recipes, photographs and, most interestingly, his journal from 2011.
They were simple, unadorned, plain: the Shaker furniture of country music.
And at the end-points of this spectrum, unadorned phones and PDAs still exist.
As the exhaustive introduction and preface make clear, it is all unadorned tragedy.
