The camera i
Subtitle: photographic self-portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
By: Robert A. Sobieszek, Deborah Irmas.
Contributors: Irmas, Deborah, 1950-; Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Publisher: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Los Angeles; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Irmas, Audrey -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs; Irmas, Sydney -- Photograph collections -- Catalogs; Los Angeles County Museum of Art -- Photograph collections -- Exhibitions; Portrait photography -- Exhibitions; Photographers -- Portraits -- Exhibitions; Self-portraits -- Exhibitions; Photograph collections -- California -- Los Angeles -- Exhibitions
Description: Here, brought together for the first time, are great self-portraits of the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present, including Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Duane Michals, and Cindy Sherman. A probing essay by Robert A. Sobieszek illuminates each of the 149 images.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-[239]).
Catalog of a traveling exhibition beginning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 11-October 23, 1994.