Polaroid Portraits, Vol. 1
Hamilton, Richard
Started in 1968, finished in 2001, Richard Hamilton’s “self-portrait” project spanned five decades and eventually comprised four volumes. The concept was simple: when Hamilton visited another artist (or an artist came to see him) he asked them to take his picture with a Polaroid camera. When he had collected 32 such Polaroid portraits he published a volume in the series and listed the artists names on the cover. All together these books contain a very effective self-portrait of Hamilton, encompassing his life and travels, the way he aged, and the people that he knew…