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Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography (Hardback)
$36.03 - Save $8.49 (19%) - RRP $44.52 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Auto FocusFeatures the work of 75 photographers from around the world for whom self-portraiture is a central part of their work. This book includes an introduction that uses historical examples to enrich the understanding of how self-portraiture was first used in photography and to illustrate how self-portrait derived and developed from those origins.
Full description- Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Published: 23 August 2010
- Format: Hardback 224 pages
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- Categories: Photographs: Portraits
- ISBN 13: 9780500543894 ISBN 10: 0500543895
- Sales rank: 142,098
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Full description for Auto Focus
"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.

