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You are bidding on a signed coffee-table book, Close, by world-renowned portrait photographer MARTIN SCHOELLER, which will be autographed uniquely for you.

Expiration date: 06/20/2026

Additional Information

ISBN-13: 9783958294912
Publisher: Steidl, Gerhard Druckerei und Verlag
Publication date: 09/25/2018
Pages: 136
Product dimensions: 11"(w) x 14"(h) x 0.90"(d)

Close presents 120 portraits of the world's most famous and influential people across the arts and entertainment industries, politics, business, and sport-from Julia Roberts and Adele, to Frank Gehry and Marina AbramoviÃ"‡, 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." Among Schoeller's famous subjects are also some unknown and unfamiliar ones, serving to make his project a comprehensive "informal anthropological study of the faces of our time."