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GHOST IN THE SHELL

Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000
Robert A. Sobieszek   (Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2000


Historian Peter Selz has compared Gottfried Helnwein's tortured, screaming, and bandaged self-portraits to Messerschmidt's sculptural self-portraits,
but the artist has said, " The reason why I took up the subject of self-portraits and why I have put myself on stage was to function as a kind of representative.
There is nothing autobiographical, no therapy, and it says nothing about me personally.
I am always available as a model." ...


Gottfried Helnwein: Ghost in the Shellcover




Gottfried Helnwein: Black Mirror, Self-Portrait
Black Mirror, Self-Portrait 1987
70 cm x 52 cm
polaroid
Los Angeles County Museum of Art




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