Self Portrait

New York: Cheim & Read, 2003. Hardcover, [38]pp., 12 x 9.5 inches. 

Very Good.

Published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Cheim & Read in New York in 2003, Self Portrait by Jack Pierson contains full color plates of 15 photographs and an introductory essay by Marina Grzinic. Despite the title, the photographs are not actual self-portraits of Pierson, but rather images of other anonymous men and boys. Numerically titled, with the first "self portrait" being one of a young child, the book presents an exploratory arc of a life containing the possibilities of multiple identities and the negation of a fixed, individual self. In keeping with much of Pierson's experimental work as an artist and member of the Boston School.