Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes

by Chuck Close

Edited by Demetrio Paperoni. Intruduction by Philip Glass. Conversation with Timothy Greenfied-Sanders. This monograph explores the daguerreotypes of Chuck Close, one of America's most renowned artists. Close's daguerreotypes, collected here for the first time, represent one of the artist's forays into interesting experimental media in which Close brings a technique anchored in photography's earliest origins into the twenty-first century.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 2002

About the author

Chuck Close is a renowned American painter, printmaker, and photographer. His 1998 traveling retrospective, organized by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, confirmed his place in the pantheon of major contemporary artists. His paintings, prints, and photographs, represented by PaceWildenstein in New York, are widely exhibited and collected."

Reviews

[Aaron the Pink Donut · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book. Chuck Close explores this medium with amazing dexterity. Very beautiful and mysterious. If you like his early large format hyper realist portraits you will really like this book.