Auction Catalogue 2007
View Lots 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-91
Lot 1
Matt Stuart
British Museum, 2002
Fibre, 10”x15”
Signed verso
Lot 2
Akintunde Akinleye, courtesy of Reuters
Gas Pipeline Explosion, Lagos, 2006
A man rinses soot from his face at the scene of a gas pipeline explosion near Lagos, Nigeria. 1st Prize Spot News Singles, World Press Photo 2007
Digital, 16”x12”
Limited edition of 20
Lot 3
Marcus Lyon courtesy of The Glassworks
Marcus in his big blue truck, Rio De Janeiro from The BRICS series, 2007
The first in a series of 8 Limited edition images that focus on the Mega cities of the emerging BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) economies. Intending to comfort us with the reality of the modern urban expansion, the artist decided to be present in each photograph. Find him if you can.
Digital fibre Museum Bareyte print mounted on aluminium, 45.5”x30.5”
Artist’s Proof, signature etched in glass and verso
Lot 4
Jane Bown, courtesy of The Newsroom, Guardian and Observer Archive
Margo Fonteyn and Rudolf Nuryev in rehearsal for ‘Raymonda’ at the Royal Ballet School, 1964
Silver bromide, 18”x12”
Signed recto
Lot 5
Donna Ferrato
West 4th Street, New York City, 1994
Fibre based, 19”x12.5”
Limited edition 1/4, signed verso and stamped recto
Lot 6
Gary Breckheimer
Flatiron Baby, 2002
Shot on location in New York City on 23rd and 5th Ave and Broadway. This Lyrical building remains the New York’s oldest skyscraper
Silver gelatin, 11”x14”
Limited edition 15/25, signed recto
Lot 7
Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Eastbourne, England, 1995-1999
Hand printed c-type, 20”x30”
Limited edition 4/10, signed verso
Lot 8
Richard Bram
Millennium Leap, London, December, 1999
Sliver gelatin lambda print, 12.5”x19”
Limited edition 3/20, signed recto
Lot 9
Maria Stott
50 Years World Press Photo, 2007
Decades of photojournalism has shaped a certain vision of the world. But has it brought the viewer closer to understanding it? Or has it created a hyperreal vision in which the “what” is privileged over the “who” and “why”? The work demands: Whose world? Whose press? Whose photography?
Laminated inkjet print mounted on dibond, 55”x47”
Limited edition 1/5
Lot 10
Tom Stoddart / Getty Images
Earthquake Child and Pigeons, 2001
A child plays with pigeons among the ruins of Bhachau, one of the worst hit towns in Gujarat. At 8.46am on the morning of 26 January 2001, 30,000 people died when the most powerful earthquake to strike India for more than half a century decimated hundreds of towns and villages in the north western state of Gujarat
Silver gelatin fibre print, 14”x14”
Signed verso
Lot 11
Philip Jones Griffiths / Magnum Photos
A fertility shrine where young women pray to get pregnant, Bangkok, Thailand, 1977
Fibre print, 23.5”x15.5”
Signed verso
Lot 12
Emil Hoppe, courtesy of Shapero Gallery
Spring in the Air, circa. 1950
Silver gelatin, 6”x7”
Signed verso
Lot 13
Simon Roberts / The Photographers’ Gallery
Pyro Enthusiasts Watching a Ground Bomb, Nevada Desert, 2002
C-type, 18”x18”
Limited edition 2/15, signed verso
Lot 14
Clive Arrowsmith
Peter Gabriel in a Box, 1975
Cromalin, 16”x16”
Limited edition 1/10, signed recto
Lot 15
Andreas H Bitesnich
Irina, Vienna, 2005
C-type, 15.7”x19.7”
Limited edition 3/25, signed verso