Photographers - Part 49

Self-Portraits

In both art and photography, the self-portrait is a popular subject, perhaps because the model is always available.  We've seen many nude self-portraits in this blog, but today we look at some photographic self-portraits that we haven't seen before.

Above, artist Thomas Eakins, who popularized using photography as a tool to assist the artist, in a self-portrait photo dated 1883.

A 1919 self-portrait by Czech photographer František Drtikol.

Dutch artist and photographer Gerrit Petrus Fieret, above, worked in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mill Creek, 1966, a self-portrait by American photographer J. Wayne Higgs.

We've seen some of Peter Zvonar's work, but not Nude Self-Portrait with Gun.

Likewise, our survey of the work of Matthew Papa did not include this untitled selfie of the photographer from the rear.

Robert Mapplethorpe never hesitated to take photos that might shock some viewers.  This is a rather explicit self-portrait c. 1973.

Along the same lines, this is Self-Portrait in Green Pants by German photographer Peter Berlin.

We end with this photo by Leonard Fink.  We've already seen Fink's work documenting the abandoned Hudson River piers in New York City that were taken over by gay men in the 1970s and 1980s, but we haven't seen this 1978 photo, called Self-Portrait Getting Fucked, Pier 46.