Books with title Portrait

I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail. At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud’s shadow, and navigates the path from muse to painter in her own right, Paul’s power and identity as an artist emerge from the page. Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent.

Look at a ‘great’ photo – that is, a photo by one of the many great photographers. Rotate it 90 degrees (either way). Are you seeing new things / new aspects / a different story in the photo? Almost certainly the answer is ‘yes’; the photo is showing you something you hadn’t registered before. The message has changed – unsurprisingly – between the physical thing and you.So what’s happening?If photography is important to you, then I believe this twisting of the photo-to-person space has to be explored (by you). And by extension, understanding what is happening in rotated photographs may tell us a great deal about what happens, between the image and you, in ‘normal’, unrotated ones. We gain an insight too into visual artefacts – the visual arts and beyond – more generally.This simple idea of rotation is illustrated here with the help of 60 stunning portrait photographs. You'll discover works by some giants of photography, Dorothea Lange, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Walker Evans among them. Or – if you know these photographers already – you'll discover whole new ways of looking at their work. Give it a go – discover that you can see photography differently.____Peter FitzGerald is an artist, web developer, and former editor of Circa Art Magazine; he holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, and a degree in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

I’m not a portrait painter. If I’m anything, I have always been an autobiographer.Self-Portrait reveals a life truly lived through art. In this short, intimate memoir, Celia Paul moves effortlessly through time in words and images, folding in her past and present selves. From her move to the Slade School of Fine Art at sixteen, through a profound and intense affair with the older and better-known artist Lucian Freud, to the practices of her present-day studio, she meticulously assembles the surprising, beautiful, haunting scenes of a life. Paul brings to her prose the same qualities that she brings to her art: a brutal honesty, a delicate but powerful intensity, and an acute eye for visual detail.At its heart, this is a book about a young woman becoming an artist, with all the sacrifices and complications that entails. As she moves out of Freud’s shadow, and navigates a path to artistic freedom, Paul’s power and identity as an artist emerge from the page.Self-Portrait is a uniquely arresting, poignant book, and a work of art and literature by a singular talent. 'Fascinating… Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what.’ Olivia Laing, New Statesman **A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Observer Book of the Year****Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019**

A true family isn’t always the one you’re born with.Imogen Meyer’s life has not run smoothly so far. When she’s adopted by the seemingly perfect Ella Kingsley, Imogen thinks she is in for a dull, irritating but hopefully stable life for her and her little sister. She soon learns that no family is quite as perfect or as simple as it seems – and there are benefits to living with the Kingsleys that she had never considered, in the form of the gorgeous bad-boy Zach Monroe who lives down the road.When the tragic events of Imogen’s past catch up with her, can she keep her old life from destroying her new life? Or will she never be able to live like a normal teenage girl?