Artist: Chuck Close

Chuck Close, born in 1940, is an American photorealist that paints with the finest air brush style, and creates magnanimous head portraits and self portraits. By looking at his work, i have noticed that his images deal with identity and issues focusing around people and their perspectives of others.
Here are a few examples:
These photographs are each individual and unique, and to me it speaks towards a different side that i see of that specific person in the photograph. The photographs are each focused in a very small and detailed area at a time, in a type of unique and abstract painterly style.
His photorealistic style of imagery is almost covered in a 'truth veil' giving the image of what would be a normal portrait, a type of filter that shows a kind of imaginary truth that is revealed from the original person .