Chuck Close interviewed in Guardian Unlimited
Artist Chuck Close was recently interviewed in a tiny piece by Leo Benedictus for Guardian Unlimited regarding his series of Daguerreotype portraits entitled A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. The article isn’t much on substance and is even less on length but there are a few gems:
I’m not interested in daguerreotypes because it’s an antiquarian process; I like them because, from my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.
Well said.
Chuck Close’s name has been making the rounds lately after the news that prints from one of his daguerreotype portraits will be auctioned off in an upcoming event at Christie’s King Street location. The auction, sale number 7393, will include six prints of his 2003 nude study of supermodel Kate Moss.
