Not exact matches
The theme of the self -
portrait is explored in Andy Warhol's
Polaroids, Cindy Sherman's Bus Riders and Nan Goldin, whose slide
series captures the intimate moments of loneliness, drug use, sex and death in the era of Aids in the 1980s.
Over the past ten years, Lyle Ashton Harris has created a
series of over 200 intimate, sepia - toned
portraits termed «Chocolate
Polaroids,» capturing each sitter's face and back.
Bruce Cratsley, Self
Portraits from the
series For Whom the Bell's Told, 1984 — 5, color
polaroids SX70.
Including works from the
series Being and Having (1991);
Portraits (1993 - 97); Freeways (1994 - 95); Houses (1995 - 96); Domestic (1995 - 98); Mini-malls (1997 - 98); Large - Format
Polaroids (2000); Wall Street (2001); Icehouses (2001); Surfers (2003); Chicago (2004); and In and Around Home (2004 - 05), the exhibition will provide audiences with an unprecedented opportunity to examine the many interconnections between Opie's diverse bodies of work.
A number of key works, such as the sculpture I Was Thinking of You and the two
series of drawings An Icelandic Saga and The Story of Bern, are combined with less familiar works ranging from an early abstract painting, over a
series of collages with Japanese paper and gold leaf, to a self -
portrait in the shape of a
polaroid, and a cooking diary from 1969.