This groundbreaking publication announces the death of the conventional portrait. Exploring new techniques and strategies, the artists present faces to the world that are sometimes seductive, sometimes touching, sometimes frightening, but never less than riveting. Whether Gillian Wearing’s masked self-portrait, Aziz + Cucher’s neutral facades, LawickMuller’s composite portrait of a couple, Cindy Sherman’s disquieting disguises or Orlan’s disturbing experiments with cosmetic surgery, these images demand attention.