Merciless details, a magically intense light, and a challenge for the model to sit still for two minutes: revered photorealist Chuck Close feels that early 19th-century daguerrotype is the most intimate, least falsified form of dialog. With poet Bob Holman he has created a series of poems cum artist portraits featuring Cindy Sherman, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Kiki Smith, and others.
Schirmer/Mosel. Original English edition with German text folder. Photographs by Chuck Close; poems by Bob Holman. Interviews between Chuck Close and Bob Holman by Lyle Rexer. 56 pages, 22 tritone plates. Size: 29 x 38 cm, hardcover.