Auto Focus
Auto Focus, is by Susan Bright, who is a curator and writer. It features self-portraiture by 75
contemporary photographers. Photography writer and curator Susan Bright
provides a clear guide through this significant and dynamic genre, showing how
issues such as identity, sexuality, race and personality are key to
understanding the work of many of today’s leading photographers. It is spilt up into 5 different categories.....
• diaristic and autobiographical images
• pictures of the body
• the use of masks and masquerade
• the return to studio portraiture and the photographic album
• performance, public and private
• pictures of the body
• the use of masks and masquerade
• the return to studio portraiture and the photographic album
• performance, public and private
All the artists were very contemporary, and unlike anything I would usually look in to researching. I picked out a few artists I felt would work well with my project. I looked through the performance chapter of the book and came across Jemima Stehli. I want to look into this artist further at a later date.
