Main entry:

Schneider, Gary, 1954- artist.

Title & Author:

Portrait Sequences 1975 / Gary Schneider

Publication:

Paris : Onestar Press, 2012

Description:

1 online resource (76 PDF pages) : illustrations

Restrictions:

Open access

Notes:
"Published 2012; 140 x 225 mm; 150 pages; Cover: Paperback, color, glossy finish; Binding: glue bound; Interior: black and white"--Publisher's description
"In 1975 I began working on a film that looked at the body and face in close-up. I used a still camera to storyboard and soon realized that the sequences did not need to be made into a film. When exhibited they comprised as few as one image and as many as sixteen. Unlike cinematic linear progression these sequences could be read from left to right or the reverse or episodically. It was factual as well as metaphorical, and also dealt with a private exchange between my subject and myself, that could then be made public. These remain essential aspects of my work. For this book I maintained the original size of the prints, restricting me to one per page. As a consequence the sequences often had to be reconfigured and this has breathed new life into the work itself. I am indebted to Paul McMahon for giving me my first solo show which included these sequences at Artist Space, NYC in 1977; and Deborah Martin Kao who curated them into her survey exhibition of my work, Portraits, in 2004 at the Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Gary Schneider"--Publisher's Web site
"First edition limited to 250 numbered copies"--Colophon
Title from PDF page 3

Summary:

"In 1975 I began working on a film that looked at the body and face in close-up. I used a still camera to storyboard and soon realized that the sequences did not need to be made into a film. When exhibited they comprised as few as one image and as many as sixteen. Unlike cinematic linear progression these sequences could be read from left to right or the reverse or episodically. It was factual as well as metaphorical, and also dealt with a private exchange between my subject and myself, that could then be made public. These remain essential aspects of my work. For this book I maintained the original size of the prints, restricting me to one per page. As a consequence the sequences often had to be reconfigured and this has breathed new life into the work itself."-- provided by distributor.

Resources:
Full text PDF

Subject:

Schneider, Gary, 1954- Self-portraits.
Schneider, Gary, 1954-
Photography of the human body.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie de corps humain.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.

Form/genre:

Artists' books.
artists' books (books)
Self-portraits
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Onestar Press, publisher.