i've been having a hard time with portraits lately. i've taken a bit of time off from really looking at them (or taking them).
Anne Collier's approach to capturing the subject is very appealing to me right now. her images raise a lot of questions, ones that i enjoy--about appropriation, looking, documenting, nostalgia, and about why we take photographs.
the top image is from her "Woman With A Camera" series; it's a photograph of a promotional photo for "Eyes of Laura Mars" (the 1978 film in which Faye Dunaway sees--and photographs--through the eyes of a male serial killer). the second image is "8 x 10 (Left Eye #1)," from a recent series of photographs of 8 x 10 prints in photo paper boxes.
Collier has said of photographing other photographs and album covers: "It's got something to do with self-portraiture, but I'm not really in any of the photographs."
(listen to more at the 2006 Whitney Biennial site.)
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The shot of Faye Dunaway gives me chills - it reminds me of her and Jack Nicholson in the bathroom in "Chinatown" when she says, "Oh, that - it's a flaw in the iris." Its perfect that she held a camera up to those irises in "Laura Mars".
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