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Pelle Cass
Self Portraits with Mistakes
Pelle Cass
Pelle Cass. Mistake Twelve, 2020
“Each photograph in the ‘Self Portraits with Mistakes’ series is a composite of hundreds of exposures that I take of myself over a short period.
I recompose my face into a single new likeness that is somehow wrong, since I combine contradictory and incompatible expressions. In fact, these are not really self portraits, since they don’t really resemble me. Instead, they are portraits of mistakes. Done during the pandemic lockdown and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, these photographs are “mis-taken,” so to speak: poor renderings of my physiognomy. In a sense, these ‘self portraits’ record the mistakes I made in their making, but they also speak, somehow, of mistakes made in my life, my country, and the world at large.”
— Pelle Cass
Selected Works
Pelle Cass
Mistake Twelve, 2020
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Pelle Cass
Mistake Ten, 2020
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Pelle Cass
Mistake Seven, 2020
1 ETH
Pelle Cass
Mistake Five, 2020
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Pelle Cass
Mistake One, 2020
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Pelle Cass
Mistake Nineteen Three, 2020
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Pelle Cass
1954 (USA)
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Pelle Cass is a photographer based in Boston.
He has exhibited at the George Eastman House, the Albright Knox Gallery, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and the Metamorf Biennial for Art and Technology in Norway, and has presented shows at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery (Boston), Stux Gallery (Boston), Gallery Kayafas (Boston), and the Houston Center for Photography.
His work is owned by the Fogg Art Museum, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Polaroid Collection, the DeCordova Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the MFA, Houston.
Cass’ photos have appeared in books such as Photoviz (Gestalten), Deleueze and the City (Edinburgh University Press), Langford’s Basic Photography (Focal Press), The Beautiful Sparkle: Optical Illusions in Art (Prestel), and in magazines such as Beaux Arts (France), McSweeney’s, FOAM, GQ, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, and many others. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, Artists Resource Trust, and the Polaroid Collection.
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