134 pages | 152 images
Harvard University Art Museums | Yale University Press
By Deborah Martin Kao

Gary Schneider makes prints from nineteenth-century negatives and uses nineteenth-century techniques to construct his portraits, which require very long exposure times. He also uses scientists’ negatives and collaborates with scientists to make self-portraits of his own biological information. Many of his photographs are printed on a very large scale, even mural size. Some are fragments, or parts of a whole, placed in grids. Others are series, sequenced in a particular format. When making a book with these photographs, decisions regarding scale, placement and relationship to the page edges became significant.

I want to thank you for an extraordinarily beautiful design on our book. It is both elegant and contemporary. I am very moved by it. The sensitivity of your responses to my work are more than I have ever experienced before.Gary Schneider, Artist