Final Portrait: Holly and Charles

Wright is a photographer from southern California who started her professional life as an actress. Final Portraits is part of a series of fifteen full-length single and double portraits, all taken from directly above the subjects. For each image the artist asked her subjects to show in their pose or expression the way in which they would prepare to meet death. How her sitters deal with the demands put upon them is a major theme in Wright's works, which are inventive, extremely personal, and often witty. Such collaboration between artist and sitter creates a strong psychological impact, as well as iconographical meaning.