Artist and Photographer, Lyle Ashton Harris who is featured in the upcoming feature documentary “Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People” was in conversation with photographer and painter, Chuck Close, at the New York Public Library as part of the New York Public Library Artist Dialogue.
Widely known for his self-portraiture and explorations of identity in his photographs, videos, and performances, artist Lyle Ashton Harris has spent the last decade creating a monumental series of sepia-toned portraits with the large-format Polaroid camera. These 200 portraits of family, friends, cultural figures, celebrities, and fellow artists blur conventional roles, identities, and racial categories in subtle plays of light and shadow.
Marking the publication of Excessive Exposure, a major new book from Gregory R. Miller & Co. which collects the complete series of “Chocolate Portraits,” acclaimed artist Chuck Close, one of today’s most original creators of portraits in both painting and photography, joins Harris in a conversation on topics ranging from portraiture and photography in the context of the contemporary art world to aspects of their own art-making practices.
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