Minneapolis. Walker Art Center. CLOSE Portraits. 80 pp. text with 47 b&w illustrations and 18 color reproductions. 4to, wraps. 1980.

Brehm, Margrit et al. CHUCK CLOSE. 200 pp., 45 color illustrations and 28 color and b&w figures. Folio, cloth. Stuttgart, Cantz, 1994.
Featuring 40 works from a 25-year period, this beautifully produced volume traces Close's development from early photorealist work to the large-scale "intimate portraits" of friends and acquaintances, working to maintain, as he says, "the frozen, poem-like moment in time."

Storr, Robert. CHUCK CLOSE. Includes essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye; 224 pp., with 113 color and 75 b&w illustrations. Large 4to, cloth. New York, Museum of Modern Art in association with Abrams, 1998.
This mid-career retrospective of one of America's most respected artists covers Close's early photorealistic works through his contemporary work where he combines brilliant optical acuity with painterly detail.

New York. Pace Gallery. CHUCK CLOSE: Recent Work. 3 page interview followed by several color plates. 4to, stapled wraps. 1986.

Sultan, Terrie. CHUCK CLOSE Prints: Process and Collaboration. Essay by Richard Shiff; 160 pp., 110 color plates, 36 halftones and a double gatefold. Folio, boards. Princeton and Woodstock, Princeton University Press and Houston, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, 2003.
Published to accompany a traveling retrospective of Close's prints.

Friedman, Martin. Close Reading: CHUCK CLOSE and the Art of the Self-Portrait. 344 pp., 200 color plates. 4to, boards. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
This book is the first comprehensive study to focus on Close's self portraits and the portraits he has made of fellow artists, including Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, and William Wegman. Beginning with a biographical discussion of the artist's life and career, the author broadens his understanding of the subject in interviews with both Close and his subjects.

Grynsztejn, Madeleine, and Siri Engberg. CHUCK CLOSE: Self-Portraits 1967-2005. Foreword by Neal Benezra and Kathy Halbreich; 152 pp., roughly 100 color and 50 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth-backed boards. San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, and Minneapolis, Walker Museum of Art, 2005.
This catalogue from a travelling exhibition focuses exclusively on Close self-portraits of the past four decades.

Holman, Bob (poems) and CHUCK CLOSE (photographs). A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Interview by Lyle Rexer; 20 tritone plates, with text facing, followed by x pp.. 4to, cloth. New York, Aperture, 2006.
When originally published, the deluxe, limited-edition portfolio of 20 daguerreotypes reproduced here had a print run of just 75 copies. This book preserves the luxurious sensitivity of the original works, whose subjects have made regular appearances in his paintings over the course of his career: Laurie Anderson, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Philip Glass, Cindy Sherman, James Turrell, and Robert Wilson, among others.

Friedman, Martin. Close Reading: CHUCK CLOSE and the Art of the Self-Portrait. [SIGNED] 344 pp., 200 color plates. 4to, boards. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
This book is the first comprehensive study to focus on Close's self portraits and the portraits he has made of fellow artists, including Cindy Sherman, Francesco Clemente, Jasper Johns, and William Wegman. Beginning with a biographical discussion of the artist's life and career, the author broadens his understanding of the subject in interviews with both Close and his subjects. Signed by the artist.

Finch, Christopher. CHUCK CLOSE: Work. 336 pp., over 200 color and b&w illustrations. Folio, cloth. Munich, Berlin, London, New York, Prestel, 2007.
This new monograph features almost all of Close's paintings, as well as prints and multiples, and a selection of his photographic work. Unpublished photos from the artist's personal archive round out this biographical, large-format volume.

Storr, Robert and Klaus Kertess. CHUCK CLOSE Paintings 1968/2006. Artist interview by Richard Shiff; 160 pp., illustrated throughout in color and b&w. 4to, wraps. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2007.
Published to accompany an exhibition ta Reina Sofia, Madrid, and the Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen. Text in English.

New York, The Pace Gallery. CHUCK CLOSE Recent Work. Unpaginated ex. cat. with 6 color and 11 b&w plates. 4to, stapled wraps. 1977.

New York. Pace Gallery. CHUCK CLOSE [SIGNED]. Unpaginated catalogue with approximately 20 illustrations. 4to, wraps. 1983.
Inscribed by Close, "For Jacob, Chuck Close, 1983"