Auto Focus by Susan Bright

Auto Focus by Susan Bright

Auto Focus features the work of 75 contemporary photographers from around the world for whom self-portraiture is a central part of their work. Issues of identity – national, sexual, racial, personal or artistic – are key to all the images featured in this book. In an extended introduction, historical examples are used to enrich the understanding of how self-portraiture was first used in photography and to illustrate how the contemporary self- portrait derived and developed from those origins. The book, organized around five themes dominant in contemporary self-portraiture, provides a clear guide for readers through a significant and dynamic genre.

'Intriguing … a feast of elaborate photographic reinvention' - Observer
'Insightful and commanding … an indispensable modern guide to the long-established art of the self-portrait' - Glass Magazine
'An inspirational tome' - Professional Photographer
'A great compilation of images on a particularly difficult genre of photography … very engaging text' - Amateur Photographer

Susan Bright is a curator and writer. She has taught extensively in the UK and convened major international conferences and seminars on many aspects of art and photography. She was formerly Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Curator at the Association of Photographers and Acting Director for the MA Photography (Historic and Contemporary) at Sotheby’s Insitute of Art, London.

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ISBN 13	9780500543894
ISBN 10	0500543895
Title	Auto Focus
Author	Susan Bright
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Publisher	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Year published	2010-08-23
Number of pages	224
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