Nairne, Sandy and Sarah Howgate — The Portrait Now

London, National Portrait Gallery / Yale University Press, 2006. Softcover. White & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 160 pp. 90+ color illus. "Brings together more than eighty portraits from internationally acclaimed artists to demonstrate the accomplishment and inventiveness of this art form. Recent works by John Currin, Sally Mann, Catherine Opie, Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Vik Muniz, Thomas Struth, and many others reveal developments in painting, sculpture, video art, photography, self-portraiture, and caricature." (flap). VG .