Auto Focus: The Self Portrait In Contemporary Photography

Auto Focus: The Self Portrait In Contemporary Photography - Susan Bright

Bought a new book today, its lovely! Full of interesting and helpful stuff for my project. Theres a long introduction which talks about why people take self portraits and all the issues they can address but not only this it talks about how people use self portraits as an experiment for technical things as well.

Just as a reminder to myself heres the list of people to look at...!

Hippolyte Bayard - a MUST starting point for self portraits!
Jeff Wall
Helmet Newton
Bill Brandt
Chuck Close
Andy Warhol
Gavin Turk
Martin Parr (if I have to!)
Cindy Sherman
Sam Taylor Wood
Sunil Gupta
Elina Brotherus
Lisa Ohlweiler
Tracey Rose
Ananke Asseff
Dita Pepe
Tomoko Sawadn
Aneta Grzeszykowska - links to Cindy Shermans film stills work
Francis Bacon
Brett Whitley
Zhang Huan
My Little Dead Dick
Gillian Wearing
Hew Locke
Jemma Stehl