Katharina Sieverding CloseUps Author:Sabeth Buchmann, Katja Diefenbach, Daniel Marzona, Amy Smith Stewart, Glenn Lowry, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Katharina Sieverding This full-color catalogue presents a broad overview of Katharina Sieverding's technically processed and manipulated photographic close-ups. They are reproduced here as full-bleeds--faces close to the lens, eyes staring directly into the camera with proposed implication. Sierverding creates what has been described as a "phantasmagoric series of c... more »haracters . . . relentless, confrontational and frightening but also seductive and vulnerable." Accompanying these 300 images is Joseph Beuys's overview of Sieverding's early work, up to her current works that focus on self-portraits. Essays by Norman Bryson, Klaus Biesenbach, Sabeth Buchmann, Katja Diefenbach, Alanna Heiss, Brian O'Doherty, Daniel Marzona, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and Amy Smith Stewart. Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in./548 pgs / 400 color and 100 b&w.« less