This piece is Jenny Saville's "Closed Contact #10." This photograph was taken in 1996, and it is part of a series of large polaroids taken from under her body while she lies on a sheet of glass. I really like the visual effect of seeing her body this way--it's not a very typical self portrait, since we can't see her face. What we see instead is her body, completely bare and slightly distorted by the pressure of the glass. I look at her body and it seems more like an abstract figure, than an actual character of person. At the same time, the pose is quite expressive. The view from below seems to make a stronger statement than the same pose would from above.
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