Untitled Self-Portrait

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Lillian Feldman Schwartz

1984

Description

Little is known about this early self-portrait, yet it can be situated within Schwartz’s pioneering experiments with flatbed scanners and digital photo collage in the early 1980s. A photograph of the artist standing outdoors, her long hair caught in the wind, is overlaid with the texture of cracked glass and capped by a geometric pyramid motif rendered in brown, orange, and red linear forms. The juxtaposition of photographic likeness and digitally manipulated surface suggests an exploration of how scanning technologies could fracture and recompose the image. The self-portrait exemplifies Schwartz’s treatment of the photograph as raw material within an emerging computer-based collage practice.