Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography - Tapa blanda

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

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction · Autobiography · Body · Masquerade · Studio & Album Performance