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Article: A book of self-images by imposing imagers
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 6, 1994
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"The Camera I, Photographic Self-Portraits," From the
Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, By Robert A. Sobieszek
and Deborah Irmas, Abrams, 1994, 149 illustrations, 240
pages, $49.50.
What photographer hasn't turned the camera on her or himself in a
moment of shy introspection or bold self-affirmation?
Here is a tribute to the self-portrait, spanning nearly a century
and a half, an absorbing collection shot by photographers, running
from the straight to the bizarre, the naive to the threatening.
Who can help but love Eadweard Muybridge's machine gun approach to
movement as he nakedly swings a pick ax, walks, climbs stairs and
shovels dirt in 1885? Berenice Abbott (c. 1930) peers ...