Chuck Close: Daguerreotypes

This monograph explores the daguerreotypes of Chuck Close, one of America's most renowned artists and a leading figure on the art scene of the post-war era. The resulting volume permits a comprehensive study of the artist's entire oeuvre from the very outset of his career to the present day. A figurative painter and photographer, Close work has always occupied the territory where realism, abstraction, and minimalism overlap; his art's founding principle lies chiefly in an analysis of the working process, whether of painting or of photography.