From 2008 to 2010 Louise Bourgeois allowed Alex Van Gelder into her private world--her studio and home--and indulged his lens, while she worked, rested, waited--mischievous, or lost in thought, weary of decrepitude, raging, defiant to the end. She fills the camera with her presence. It is a profound portrait of an artist of the utmost consequence and a piercing study of extreme age.
Louise Bourgeois was one of the last surviving artists of...