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Model | Christopher Anderson c/o Sarah Laird + good company |
PHOTO | Chuck Close watching a self-portrait being installed the day before the opening of his exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York last September |
American painter Chuck Close was portrayed by Christopher ANDERSON for a story in NEW YORK TIMES magazine.
Artist Chuck Close suffers from a deficit called prosopagnosia (face blindness). The deficit makes him unable to recognize familiar people by seeing their face. This, however, did not keep the painter from becoming famous with larger-than-life portrait heads which he painted using photos with facial grids. Close' paintings are not a...