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Article: Gary Schneider: facing time: using a lengthy exposure and a handheld flashlight to illuminate his subjects, photographer Gary Schneider creates large-format portraits--holistic body vistas, each of which is also the record of a performance.(Critical Essay)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Gary Schneider, who was born in South Africa in 1954, is best known today for Genetic Self-Portrait. This expansive and dramatically heterogeneous work depicts the exterior and interior of the artist's body. The core group of 14 photographs dates from 1997-98, and there have been a few subsequent additions. Schneider generated some of the images simply by pressing himself against the emulsion of a sheet of film. Most of the negatives, however, stem from collaborations with medical researchers in New York; they range from X-rays to shots of chromosomes tagged with fluorescent markers. Genetic Self-Portrait had a special appeal during the turn of the millennium, for it ...
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