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- n. Plural form of self-portrait.
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Since she fled her homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, Kimiko Yoshida -- through what is called "self-portraits" -- has refined and amplified a feminist stance of protest, cultivated and distanced from "current affairs".
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There are many, many self-portraits in many ingenious permutations, as if she were checking on her own identity or interpolating herself into the environment.
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"Philippe compared Joan of Arc in the phase of her life that I play to this photographer, who took some extremely brave and strong self-portraits before she committed suicide at a very young age," Ms. Poésy says.
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These partly inspired the photo shoots for the self-portraits series [a. somebody, strijen], which were the last version from that specific inspiration.
Liliana Rodrigues: Behind the Lens of Dutch Photographer Anton Corbijn
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Given that a nine-foot-square 1986 Warhol self-portrait sold for $32.6 million at Sotheby's earlier this year (becoming the most expensive work of art from the 1980s ever sold at auction), it certainly seems like an opportune time for a survey of Warhol self-portraits.
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(Take a look at her haunting self-portraits in this post).
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[We then walk to Pruitt's self-portraits.] & #169 Ruthie Abel 2010
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I had been thinking about other artist's forays into self-portraiture including some of my friends, like Elizabeth Peyton who shows here -- her great self-portraits.
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National Gallery's "The Bathers" from the same year, and a truly fine collection of self-portraits (one in the shape of a ceramic vase), from 1888-1903, which provide useful evidence for Ms. Thomson's thesis about self-promotion.
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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/Christie's Images Two of Andy Warhol's self-portraits, including the one above, from 1986, sold for more than $20 million Wednesday at Christie's Post-War and Contemporary evening sale.
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