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Daguerreotypien gehören eigentlich ins frühe 19. Jahrhundert, in die Kindertage der Photographie. 1839 stellte Louis Daguerre die Ergebnisse seiner Experimente der französischen Akademie der Wissenschaften vor: kleinformatige, aber brillant scharfe Portraits auf silberbeschichteten Kupferplatten, die wegen ihrer Lichtempfindlichkeit in samtenen Schatullen aufbewahrt werden mußten. Es sind kostbare Unikate, denn eine Daguerreotypie läßt sich nicht vervielfältigen.
Einen Künstler wie Chuck Close (geb. 1940), den seit der documenta 1972 bekanntesten und wohl höchstbezahlten...

When confronted with the opportunity to make a children's book, the internationally renowned painter, photographer and printmaker Chuck Close quickly took to the idea of a publication without words. Scribble Book, presented in two accordion-folded volumes, is a self-portrait that emerges incrementally from the printing process--one plate and one color at a time. In the first volume, the viewer follows a series of nine individual plate proofs; in the second, we follow along with a corresponding series of nine progressive proofs, culminating in a nine-color self-portrait. By comparing...

Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett No. 60 features Chuck Close, Diana Thater and Luc Tuymans, three artists from very different backgrounds. Contributing writers include Francine Prose and Richard Shiff on Close; Sara Arrhenius, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe and Regina Hasslinger on Thater; and Laura Hoptman, Gerardo Mosquera and Hans Rudolf Reust on Tuymans. This issue also contains essays on David Bunn, Jeremy Deller and Paul Etienne Lincoln, as well as a conversation between Chuck Close and Elizabeth Peyton and an interview...