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Martin Schoeller Close

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Martin Schoeller Close

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Close presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and infl uential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, business and sport-from Julia Roberts and Adele, to Frank Gehry and Marina Abramović, Barack Obama, Julian Assange and Roger Federer. Between 2005 and 2018 Schoeller photographed his subjects, in his words "to create a level platform, where a viewer's existing notions of celebrity, values, and honesty are challenged." Schoeller realized this goal by subjecting his sitters to equal technical treatment: each portrait is a close-up of a face with the same camera angle and lighting. The expressions are consistently neutral, serious yet relaxed, in an attempt to tease out his subjects' differences and capture moments "that felt intimate, unposed." Schoeller's inspiration for Close was the water tower series of Bernd and Hilla Becher, his ambition to adapt their systematic approach to portraiture. Amidst Schoeller's famous subjects are also some unknown and unfamiliar ones, a means to comprehensively make his project an "informal anthropological study of the faces of our time."
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
136
Release Date:
2018-07-11
Publication Date:
2018-09-20
Publisher:
Steidl GmbH & Co.OHG
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
395829491X
ISBN13:
9783958294912
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
2000 g
Height:
370 cm
Width:
290 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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