The Camera i Photographic Self-portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Robert A. Sobieszek, Deborah Irmas — 1994

Here, brought together for the first time, are great self-portraits of the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present, including Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Duane Michals, and Cindy Sherman. A probing essay by Robert A. Sobieszek illuminates each of the 149 images.