A dialogue between the different ways of approaching the exercise of self-portrait, through the works of different French painters from the 19th and 20th centuries. Text in English and French.

With an ironic and brazen look, Lisette Model was able to capture in her shots the most grotesque aspects of postwar American society.

Published on the occasion of the first Italian anthological exhibition dedicated to her, the volume retraces the successful work of Lisette Model, an artist of Austrian origin who had great importance in the development of photography in the Fifties and Sixties.

Parallel to her teaching activity - she had among her students authors who later became famous such...