what if your left side of your face matched the right? or vise versa?
what if your "good side" was both sides?

They say the more symmetrical your face the more "attractive" you are.
no you look scary and weird.

Close has been one of my favorite artist's since my first trip to the Art Museum. Portraits interest me the most, no matter what medium. I recently found out that Chuck's work will be in the new Vanity Fair Hollywood Edition. I was very confused at first because I thought it was mostly photography based. Well, he's the fucking guest artist and he's taking photos. It could be love.

Chuck using a 20 x 24 inch Polaroid
Subject: Oprah

Here's the Vanity Fair interview with Close talking about his process, subjects, lack of hair/makeup crew, and why he chose the breath taking Polaroid camera.

Over the past few days I have been trying to take as many photos as possible. I have all of these ideas and themes I want to try out and perfect. I'm considering these first hundred photos as a practice run. Looking over the few I loaded onto my personal computer I noticed some focusing, lighting, and grain issues. All to be expected for my first time really using manual mode on my camera (Canon 60d). I liked a few a lot and hated majority. But that's what being an artist is all about..... so I think.

My Royal Jr. typewriter
(I will refer to it as Margaret)

When I looked at this on my camera I didn't see and of the dust.
(Margaret upside down)

Accidental Self Portrait

Unaccidental self portrait

My little Sister being patient

I love the idea of doing a set of these with different people