1995–2019

Le livre

Martin Schoellers portraiture is renowned for its indelible, ultra-close-ups, with a tone, mood and compositional consistency that have energized the pages of many of Americas and Europes most respected publications over the last 20 years. But these revelatory photographs are just the most recognizable slice of his astonishingly searching, restless oeuvre. Schoeller has now amassed a body of work that defies classification, as he has ventured into all but invisible subcultures, the most current events, breakdowns in social justice, celebrity and several other sub-categories of public interest. As seen collectively in Martin Schoeller 1999-2019, these images comprise a veritable museum of recent history: a varied, imaginative, buoyant, disciplined and conscientious project that is the work of an inexhaustibly humane outlook.