ABSTRACT
More recently, Andy Warhol constantly relied on self-portraiture
to reflect on his position as a famous artist, performing a variety of
roles that examine celebrity, disaster, and death. Cindy Sherman has
made self-portraits cloaked in historical guises that confront and chal-
lenge archetypes and stereotypes about the roles men and women
play within society. Robert Mapplethorpe photographed himself to
explore his sexual identity. Chuck Close has made more than 100
self-portraits in a variety of media that merge manual and mechanical
processes to explore the boundary lines between the abstract and the
representational, the methodical and the subjective, and the personal
and the public self. On the other hand, Nan Golden uses her camera
to become part of her intimate relationships, recording her subjective
internal feelings rather than objective external experiences. The
camera joins and clarifies what is going on between Goldin and the
subjects of her group of friends.
