Six self portraits through the looking glass

Ilse Bing, París, 1931

Gisèle Freund, México, 1950

Vivian Maier, New York, 1955

Winfried Georg Maximilian Sebald, Manchester, 1967

Ilkhi Carranza, Bilbao, 1982

Agustín Fernández Mallo, Cuenca, 2000

"Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly down into the Looking-glass room".

Through the Looking Glass, 1872

Lewis Carroll

"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."

On Photography, 1977

Susan Sontag