Self-exposure : human-interest journalism and the emergence of celebrity in America, 1890-1940 / Charles L. Ponce de Leon.
"The nude self-portrait is perhaps the most intimate form of photography. It delves deep into taboo territory and strips away the traditional barriers between artist and viewer. Witnessing such a private act, we may feel the queasy embarrassment of a voyeur, but we are always compelled to look...
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill, N. C. :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2002]
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| Summary: | "The nude self-portrait is perhaps the most intimate form of photography. It delves deep into taboo territory and strips away the traditional barriers between artist and viewer. Witnessing such a private act, we may feel the queasy embarrassment of a voyeur, but we are always compelled to look further. The revealing self-portrait cuts to the core of issues of identity, sexuality, and ego - and as it tells an essential truth about its creator it also tells us something about ourselves." "Self-Exposure features more than one hundred works from both established masters and up-and-coming photographers - many never before published. This collection, the first of its kind, traces the many ways men see themselves. Each artist takes a uniquely individual approach ranging from the shockingly perverse and aggressively erotic to the elusively self-conscious and sublimely beautiful. Complete with brief biographies of each artist, Self-Exposure is a powerful survey of this most seductive subject."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 325 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-313) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807827290 9780807827291 0807854034 9780807854037 |