Richard Estes (b. 1932, USA)
Double Self-Portrait, 1976

Most of the things that could have been said about Brooks (#386), apply here too, although it does not have same metaphorical poignancy of relevance to my own inquiry. Yet, it is interesting still in terms of painting posing as a photograph, the superimposition of imagery behind the glass and reflected in the glass, the photographer himself being in the image, tricking me to look for my own reflection…