Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-Portrait

Genetic Self-Portrait
Gary Schneider
Stinehour Press and Light Work, 1999
Hardcover, 64 pages, 23 four color plates
ISBN: 0-935445-10-2
First edition

This project stems from an intriguing offer Schneider received in 1996 to make photographs in response to some of the revolutionary discoveries that were emerging from the Human Genome Project, an international research team that is attempting to map the more than 100,000 genes that compose human DNA. Combining his interests in self-portraiture and biology, Schneider consulted with doctors and geneticists, examined diagnostic and forensic photographs, as well as X rays, radiographs, photograms and micrographs of specimen samples of various parts of his own body.