• artists' book
  • cloth boards issued without dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • color
  • 29.5 x 23.5 cm.
  • [unpaginated]
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Self Portrait

Jack Pierson

description

"A new book of photographs by Jack Pierson features fifteen images of beautiful men, arranged to suggest the arc of a lifetime — beginning with a young boy and progressing to old age with men in various stages of undress. There's nothing surprising about that; Mr. Pierson has been photographing beautiful naked men for years. In this case, though, the photographs are offered under the title Self Portrait. But none of the images is of the artist himself. Mr. Pierson has fashioned an autobiography from a collection of images of unidentified men. His photographs affect the casual look of a vacation snapshot, one you might expect to find clipped to a page of a personal diary. Often there is an implicit, offhand eroticism to his pictures of men, as if something sexual is in the cards, or might have just taken place. While there is a canny intimacy to these new pictures, languorously attuned to the temporal glamour of ordinary moments, the subject of this self-portrait series is desire — when it begins, how long it lasts, what it tells us about ourselves or, at least, about the artist." -- Philip Gefter, The New York Times, December 18, 2003

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