Chuck Close (2007)

Chuck Close an astounding portrait of one of the worlds leading contemporary painters was one of two parting gifts her second is a film on Louise Bourgeois from Marion Cajori a filmmaker who died recently and before her time With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland Chuck Close lives the life and work of a man who has reinvented portraiture Close photographs his subjects blows up the image to gigantic proportions divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face