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bill hayward’s Portrait’s of the Collaborative Self

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• Hayward has invented a kind of portraiture that invites his subjects to be full collaborators in their own self-definition. No wonder they respond with such passion.

Carter Ratcliff, art critic, author of  The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar America

• Bill Hayward’s work is portraiture for the new century.

Timothy McDarrah, ASPP

• …amazing and enticing portraits.

Richard Merkin, VANITY FAIR

• Hayward has devised a means to finger-print the imagination with forensic exactitude.

David Cohen, The New York Sun

• Portraits on the cutting edge.

James Kaufman, Photographer’s Forum

• Bill Hayward’s portraits are about the face behind the face.

Jacqueline Micucci, SOHO STYLE