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Browsing this remarkable collection, you'll find yourself pondering how appearance and identity define our sense of our selves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49726789320977,"sku":"GOR009730505","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3832796649.jpg?v=1750934903"},{"product_id":"martin-schoeller-close-book-martin-schoeller-9783958294912","title":"Martin Schoeller: Close","description":"Close presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and infl uential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, business and sport-from Julia Roberts and Adele, to Frank Gehry and Marina Abramović, Barack Obama, Julian Assange and Roger Federer. Between 2005 and 2018 Schoeller photographed his subjects, in his words \"to create a level platform, where a viewer's existing notions of celebrity, values, and honesty are challenged.\" Schoeller realized this goal by subjecting his sitters to equal technical treatment: each portrait is a close-up of a face with the same camera angle and lighting. The expressions are consistently neutral, serious yet relaxed, in an attempt to tease out his subjects' differences and capture moments \"that felt intimate, unposed.\" Schoeller's inspiration for Close was the water tower series of Bernd and Hilla Becher, his ambition to adapt their systematic approach to portraiture. Amidst Schoeller's famous subjects are also some unknown and unfamiliar ones, a means to comprehensively make his project an \"informal anthropological study of the faces of our time.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49740068651281,"sku":"NGR9783958294912","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51578327204113,"sku":"NIN9783958294912","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/395829491X.jpg?v=1773917813"},{"product_id":"close-up-book-martin-schoeller-9783832790455","title":"Close Up","description":"Almost each week, Martin Schoeller is called upon by The New Yorker magazine to capture portraits of the most recognized personalities of our time (President Bill Clinton, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Norman Mailer, Jack Nicholson and many others). Over 100 of these stunning headshot portraits are collected here in a monograph that tracks the evolution of his style and showcases the body of his work. His photographs strip away all extras, leaving only the form and light. Martin Schoeller is a rare photographer who is advancing a new style and vision in the world of portrait photography.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49854551851281,"sku":"GOR007775276","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49871735390481,"sku":"GOR005534402","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51325799268625,"sku":"CIN3832790454VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3832790454.jpg?v=1751096211"},{"product_id":"martin-schoeller-drag-queens-book-martin-schoeller-9783958299078","title":"Martin Schoeller: Drag Queens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eClose-up portraiture of the most famous drag performers in America, from Brooke Lynn Hytes to Aquaria\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last two decades, drag shows have moved from shadowy niche corners to the center of the popular zeitgeist, aided in no small measure by their photogenic appeal. But what makes a good portrait of a drag queen? It's easy to get lost in all the glitz and glamor of drag, failing to appreciate the essence, diversity and power of who these artists are and what they really do. A good portrait, as German photographer Martin Schoeller (born 1968) shows in \u003ci\u003eDrag Queens\u003c\/i\u003e, captures more than a person's look, offering a glimpse into the subject's inner world, emotions, motivations and imagination. Much more than theatrical cross-dressing, drag is about the creation of a living spectacle that tells a story and reveals a version of self that might otherwise go unnoticed. In Schoeller's images, drag emerges as a form of dynamic portraiture that conveys all the possibilities of who we imagine ourselves to be, and allows us to live and share these stories--even if just for one night.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631360049425,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631360246033,"sku":"NGR9783958299078","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3958299075.jpg?v=1767434012"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-martin-schoeller.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}