A portrait of Taylor Swift abuts that of Julian Assange tech CEO Meg Whitman is followed by heavyweight champion Mike Tyson revered faces (Stephen Curry, Meryl Streep) are interspersed with the recently disgraced (Louis C.K., Woody Allen, our current president). Close, published by Steidl, compiles 120 of these images taken between 20. If any such catalogue existed of contemporary nobility, it’d likely be found in the portfolio of Martin Schoeller, the German-born photographer whose subjects have included nearly every famous (or infamous) person alive today. In the 1860s, after photographs became cheaper and easier to make, middle-class families collected card-sized portraits ( cartes de visites) of prominent people-priests, military heroes, artists, and singers-and traded them among friends or displayed them on parlor shelves. In imperial Rome, coins bore the profile of the reigning emperor so that no matter how far you were from the capital, you’d know the face of your ruler. Few things are collected as avidly as powerful faces.
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