中文简介：

本书展示了由当今三位杰出肖像艺术家创作的艺术家肖像作品，他们分别是塔西塔·迪恩（Tacita Dean）、 布莉姬·拉孔柏（Brigitte Lacombe）和凯瑟琳·奥佩（Catherine Opie）。本书调查了肖像画的流派及其各种方法，探索了亲密和公开之间的紧张关系。虽然这三位艺术家都拥有一系列杰出作品，但每个人的拍摄方式不同：迪恩利用了电影的持续时间能力；拉孔柏带着相机外出拍摄；奥佩则沿用了工作室摄影的传统。

本书所描绘的主题往往是重叠的，它提供了一个机会来仔细观察这些艺术家在音乐、绘画、摄影、电影和文学领域遇到的具有开创性的思想家和创造者的勇敢、亲密和引起共鸣的肖像，其中包括希尔顿·阿尔斯、玛雅·安吉洛、理查德·阿维顿、琼·迪迪翁、大卫·霍克尼、琼·乔纳斯、帕蒂·史密斯、卡拉·沃克等。本书与纽约国际摄影中心（ICP）的展览同时出版，收录了展览策展人海伦·莫尔斯沃斯（Helen Molesworth）和艺术家兼作家贾勒特·欧内斯（Jarrett Earnest）的文章。

英文简介：

Face to Face presents a selection of portraits of artists by three of the most prominent portrait artists of our time. Bringing together the diverse and distinctive work of Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe, and Catherine Opie, this book forms an investigation into the charged genre of portraiture and its various approaches, navigating tensions between intimacy and publicity. While the three artists collected here share a wide set of historical touchstones, each deploys the camera differently: Dean exploits cinema's capacity for duration; Lacombe takes her cameras out on assignment; Opie works in the tradition of the studio photograph.

Often overlapping in the subjects depicted, Face to Face offers an opportunity to look closely at bracing, intimate, and resonant portraits of the seminal thinkers and makers that these artists have encountered across the fields of music, painting, photography, film, and literature, among them Hilton Als, Maya Angelou, Richard Avedon, Joan Didion, David Hockney, Joan Jonas, Patti Smith, Kara Walker, and many other others. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, the book includes essays by the exhibition's curator, Helen Molesworth, and the artist and writer Jarrett Earnest.