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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Robert A. Sobieszek

Curator of Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

GHOST IN THE SHELL
Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000
Historian Peter Selz has compared Gottfried Helnwein's tortured, screaming, and bandaged self-portraits to Messerschmidt's sculptural self-portraits,
but the artist has said, " The reason why I took up the subject of self-portraits and why I have put myself on stage was to function as a kind of representative.
There is nothing autobiographical, no therapy, and it says nothing about me personally.
I am always available as a model." ...

Gottfried Helnwein : Ghost in the Shell
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Gottfried Helnwein : Black Mirror, Self-Portrait
Black Mirror, Self-Portrait 1987
70 cm x 52 cm
polaroid
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