In his study of photography and the unconscious, Serge Tisseron quotes the following sentence from Walter Benjamin's "Short History of Photography": At the beginning of photography, no one dared to look at the faces on the plate for too long. They thought those faces were also able to see them. Tisseron goes on to wonder whether we have ever really overcome that illusion. Implicit in this question is the inevitable existence in every portrait photo of a close and powerful bond between the viewer and the subject or subjects appearing therein. This offers a fine definition of the importance, persistence and evolution of that photographic genre over time.

FACE - BODY- IDENT TY

ALBERTO MARTIN

PHOTOGRAPHS

ESSAYS

THE PORTRAIT'S DISPERSAL: CONCEPTS OF REPRESENTATION

AND SUBJECTIVITY IN CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITURE.

ERNST VAN ALPHEN

THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE FEMININE: ORLAN, CINDY SHERMAN, MARIKO MORI.

CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN

PORTRAITS / GENRE: THOMAS STRUTH.

BENJAMIN H.D. BUCHLOH

DAMAGED.

LIZ KOTZ

LONE VISIONS. CROWDED FRAMES: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF PORTRAITURE.

MAX KOZLOFF

APPENDIX

LIST OF WORKS

BIOGRAPHIES

LILA INSUA

ROSTRO - CUERPO -IDENTIDAD

ALBERTO MARTJN

FOTOGRAF/AS

ENSAYOS

LA DISRERSION DFL RETRATO: LOS CONCEPTOS DF REPRESENTACION

Y SUBJETIVIDAD EN EL RETRATQ CONTEMPORANFO.

ERNST VAN ALPHEN

LAS METAMORFOSIS DE LO FEMENINO: ORLAN, CINDY SHERMAN, MARIKO MORI.

CHRISTINE BUCI-GLUCKSMANN

RETRATOS / GENERO: THOMAS STRUTH.

BENJAMIN H. D. BUCHLOH

HERIDOS.

LIZ KOTZ

VISIONES SOLITARIAS. FOTOGRAF/AS MULTITUDINARIAS: VARIACIONES SOBRE UN TEMA DE RETRATQ.

MAX KOZLOFF

APENDICE

LISTA DE OBRAS

BIOGRAF/AS

LILA INSOA