Chuck Close (b. 1940)
‘She has got everything. She is the news.’ – Chuck Close
Chuck Close (b. 1940)

Kate Moss, 2003

Details
Chuck Close (b. 1940)
Kate Moss, 2003
archival pigment print
signed, dated and numbered '10/25' in pencil (margin, recto)
image: 35.3 x 26.6cm. (13 7/8 x 10 ½in.)
sheet: 50.8 x 40.6cm. (20 x 16in.)
This work is number 10 from the edition of 25.
Literature
Chuck Close: Family & Others, White Cube, London, p. 43.
Further details
Fascinated by the forensic clarity of the archaic daguerreotype process that captured a unique image directly on a sensitised silvered-copper plate, Close embarked in 2000 on an extensive series of daguerreotype portraits of a naked and tangibly real Kate Moss. A selected few were then digitally scanned and released as archival pigment prints, and in the case of the present image, as a large-format jacquard tapestry. The effect is an uncompromising series of close-cropped portraits that emphasise the un-cosmeticised physical presence of their subject.

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