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SMITH, JACK (1932-1989) Double composite (with 8 images from "The Beautiful Book").
SMITH, JACK (1932-1989)
Double composite (with 8 images from "The Beautiful Book"). Silver print, overall size 9 3/4x5 inches (24.77x12.7 cm.). 1962
Formerly in the collection of Piero Heliczer, a poet, film-artist, and publisher of "The Beautiful Book;" to the consignor.
Jack Smith, performance artist, film-maker and provacateur extraordinaire, also considered himself a photographer. He had his first one-person photography exhibit in 1960 at Helen Gee's Limelight Gallery. Gee's space was "one of the most prestigious photographic venues at the time, where such luminaries as Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Paul Strand regularly exhibited. The press release for the exhibit described Smith's photographs as "close-up exaggerations of mysterious-looking faces, trappings that smack of Moroccan motifs, exotic juxtapositions of figures and gestures surrounded by drapes and debris, all in particular and unnatural casts of color." This uncut sheet bears an extraordinary resemblance to Warhol's (later) works, particularly prints and paintings in which multiple images figure prominently.
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Double composite (with 8 images from "The Beautiful Book"). Silver print, overall size 9 3/4x5 inches (24.77x12.7 cm.). 1962
Formerly in the collection of Piero Heliczer, a poet, film-artist, and publisher of "The Beautiful Book;" to the consignor.
Jack Smith, performance artist, film-maker and provacateur extraordinaire, also considered himself a photographer. He had his first one-person photography exhibit in 1960 at Helen Gee's Limelight Gallery. Gee's space was "one of the most prestigious photographic venues at the time, where such luminaries as Berenice Abbott, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Paul Strand regularly exhibited. The press release for the exhibit described Smith's photographs as "close-up exaggerations of mysterious-looking faces, trappings that smack of Moroccan motifs, exotic juxtapositions of figures and gestures surrounded by drapes and debris, all in particular and unnatural casts of color." This uncut sheet bears an extraordinary resemblance to Warhol's (later) works, particularly prints and paintings in which multiple images figure prominently.
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