Photographic Self-Portraits

Photographic Self-Portraits

Some ideas for the assignment

Hippolyte Bayard, Self-Portrait as a Drowned Man, 1840

Nadar, 1863

Nadar, Self-Portrait as Aeronaut, 1863

Francis Frith, 1857

Eadweard Muybridge, 1885

Alfred Stieglitz, 1890

Edward Steichen, American, Self-Portrait with Brush & Palette, Paris, gum bichromate print, 1901

Eugène Delacroix, French, Self-Portrait, Oil on canvas, c.1837

James Van Der Zee, American, c.1920

Tato, 1923

”Under this mask another mask. I shall never finish stripping away all these faces. And underneath all these masks, there is no ‘real’ identity.”

Claude Cahun, French, Self-Portrait, photomontage left, 1929; (in costume, right), 1927

Berenice Abbott

Ilse Bing, Self-Portrait in Mirrors, 1931

Umbo

Walker Evans

Diane Arbus, Double Self-Portrait with Infant Daughter Doon, 1945

Andy Warhol, Photo-booth Self-Portrait, 1968

Arnulf Rainer, from Face Farces series, 1970-75

Lucas Samaras(Photo-Transformation)September 9, 1976Polaroid SX-70 print

Samaras, Photo-Transformation, 1976(?)

Samaras, Self-portrait #2, 1994, engraving

Lucas Samaras, iMovies, 2006

Cindy Sherman, Untitled (Film Still), 1978Making yourself up

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #119, 1983

Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 1990, (with Caravaggio, Drunken Bacchus, oil,1593)

Eileen Cowin, Departure Scene, from the series Family Docu-Drama, 1981

Carrie Mae Weems, from Kitchen Table series, 1990

Shirin Neshat, Women of Allah series, 1999

Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-Portrait, 1989

Imogen Cunningham, c. 1958

Lee Friedlander, Canyon Chelly. No date.

Lee Friedlander, Self-Portrait, New York City, 1966

Duane Michaels

Ralph Eugene Meatyard

Bruce Nauman, Self-Portrait as a Water Fountain, 1966

Bruce Nauman, 1970

Judith Golden

Nancy Burson

Elaine with Adrian, copy stand photo under OED magnifier