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The book presents a carefully curated collection of photographs assembled around a single theme: the gaze of the subject is either averted, the face obscured, or the eyes firmly closed. These images form a catalog of anti‑portraiture, revealing what the subjects conceal rather than what the camera records. Amassed over thirty years by New York collector W. M. Hunt, the collection includes works by renowned masters such as Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Imogen Cunningham, William Klein, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Frank, as well as lesser‑known artists and vernacular photographs. Through this selection, readers are invited to reconsider the role of the eye in photography and to explore the power of absence, distance, and privacy in the medium. The book offers a unique perspective on portraiture, emphasizing the spaces between visual openness and self‑concealment.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Arts & Culture/Photography
Authors: William A. Ewing
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