Evan gives props to the famous New York portraitist, Chuck Close, for being a virtuoso of photo techniques (everything from daguerrotypes to large-format Polaroids). But in a show of 90 prints, all very well executed, some of the works -- and especially the celebrity photographs -- fail to ignite empathy or excitement, he says. NOTE:…

Evan gives props to the famous New York portraitist, Chuck Close, for being a virtuoso of photo techniques (everything from daguerrotypes to large-format Polaroids). But in a show of 90 prints, all very well executed, some of the works -- and especially the celebrity photographs -- fail to ignite empathy or excitement, he says. NOTE:…

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