Martin Schoeller: 1995–2019
Martin Schoeller: 1995-2019
The portraiture of Martin Schoeller (born 1968) is renowned for its indelible ultra-closeups, with a tone, mood and compositional consistency that have energized the pages of many of America’s and Europe’s most respected publications over the last 20 years.
But these revelatory photographs are just the most recognizable slice of his astonishingly searching, restless oeuvre. Schoeller has now amassed a body of work that defies classification, as he has ventured into all but invisible subcultures, the most current events, breakdowns in social justice, celebrity and several other subcategories of public interest.
As seen collectively in Martin Schoeller: 1995–2019, these images comprise a veritable museum of recent history―a varied, imaginative, buoyant, disciplined and conscientious project that is the work of an inexhaustibly humane outlook.