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combination of technique, luck and especially the photographer\u2019s instinct brought about an immortal picture which catches the very essence of speed. an indefatigable collector, jacques henri lartigue took thousands of photographs that he classified and bound in albums. he became famous by accident. in 1963, when be was 69 years old, his work became known through an exhibition at the museum of modern art in new yorlt. three years later, encouraged by richard avedon, he published instants de ma vie, and consequently became world famous. he died in nice on the 12 september, 1986, leaving behind an important record of the 20th century. \n \n \n \n martine d\u2019astier \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology \n \n \n editions 100 to 2000 the century of 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minini, brescia italy \n \n \n \n \n those art critics and curators, who have been explaining and analysing the photographic work by luigi ghirri, agree on the same stylistic feature: the concept of the \u201ccentral line\u201d which often appears in his images. starting from his serie \u201cfotografie del periodo iniziale\u201d dated 1970 and \u201ckodachrome\u201d (1970-1978), we find some primordial traces of it, like in \u201creggio emilia\u201d 1973 (street lights) in which ghirri almost timidly does not centralize the lines of a neoclassical palace (too easy), but let the viewer imagine it through the closed shutters of the windows which form vertical crosses in the center of the facade. even in the ashtray with the effigy of a dancer (1971), a central shadow line pops up in the back of her straight body, dressed up in red and white. keeping browsing exhibition catalogues, we find same kind of works in other series such as \u201ccolazione sull\u2019erba\u201d (1972-1974) (in detail the photograph titled \u201cmodena\u201d 1973) in which a white partition of a building, cuts in half a poetic decoration with birds on one side and a climbing plant on the other. in atlante (1973), photographs of geographical maps are perfectly divided in the center by a meridian. in \u201cvedute\u201d (1971-1979), in a picture taken at ile-de-france rousse (1976) and in one titled \u201cversailles\u201d 1977, a trellis and a pillar cut in half both landscapes with blu skies and clouds. \n \n \n in \u201cidentikit\u201d (1976-1979), images of libraries taken in modena highlight in the central part of the images the most favorite book by ghirri, \u201ca music record guide\u201d and \u201cduchamp invisibile\u201d by calvesi. in \u201cstill life\u201d (1975-1979), shot in modena as well, some old master paintings are photographed with central lines of shadows and holes. up to the final image of luigi ghirri, before his sudden death on 14 february 1992: an irrigation channel set at the center, fading to infinity in the foggy countryside of pianura padana, titled \u201croncocesi\u201d, january 1992. \n \n \n the dyptich by ghirri we selected for photology 30, is a late work by the italian photographer, which seems the epitome of the \u201ccentral line\u201d concept. luigi ghirri stopped in the middle of a peripheral road and created two different images. in our imagination we can barely hear his wise thinking while setting up his camera: \u201ci can shoot the dashed central line dividing the carragieways or i can move few steps away on the street side and shoot the line which defines the board of the countryside from the paved road\u201d. a magical conceptual performance made by his brain more than by his eyes. \n \n \n \n davide faccioli","it":"(diptych), 2 vintage color prints (printed by arrigo ghi) \n \n \n cm 20 x 27 (hi) and cm 20 x 26 (low) \n \n \n both unique works \n \n \n both with a certificate of authenticity signed by paola ghirri in 2006 \n \n \n framed (natural wood with plexi) size cm 106 x 69 x 5 \n \n \n original provenance: galleria massimo minini, brescia italy \n \n \n \n \n those art critics and curators, who have been explaining and analysing the photographic work by luigi ghirri, agree on the same stylistic feature: the concept of the \u201ccentral line\u201d which often appears in his images. starting from his serie \u201cfotografie del periodo iniziale\u201d dated 1970 and \u201ckodachrome\u201d (1970-1978), we find some primordial traces of it, like in \u201creggio emilia\u201d 1973 (street lights) in which ghirri almost timidly does not centralize the lines of a neoclassical palace (too easy), but let the viewer imagine it through the closed shutters of the windows which form vertical crosses in the center of the facade. even in the ashtray with the effigy of a dancer (1971), a central shadow line pops up in the back of her straight body, dressed up in red and white. keeping browsing exhibition catalogues, we find same kind of works in other series such as \u201ccolazione sull\u2019erba\u201d (1972-1974) (in detail the photograph titled \u201cmodena\u201d 1973) in which a white partition of a building, cuts in half a poetic decoration with birds on one side and a climbing plant on the other. in atlante (1973), photographs of geographical maps are perfectly divided in the center by a meridian. in \u201cvedute\u201d (1971-1979), in a picture taken at ile-de-france rousse (1976) and in one titled \u201cversailles\u201d 1977, a trellis and a pillar cut in half both landscapes with blu skies and clouds. \n \n \n in \u201cidentikit\u201d (1976-1979), images of libraries taken in modena highlight in the central part of the images the most favorite book by ghirri, \u201ca music record guide\u201d and \u201cduchamp invisibile\u201d by calvesi. in \u201cstill life\u201d (1975-1979), shot in modena as well, some old master paintings are photographed with central lines of shadows and holes. up to the final image of luigi ghirri, before his sudden death on 14 february 1992: an irrigation channel set at the center, fading to infinity in the foggy countryside of pianura padana, titled \u201croncocesi\u201d, january 1992. \n \n \n the dyptich by ghirri we selected for photology 30, is a late work by the italian photographer, which seems the epitome of the \u201ccentral line\u201d concept. luigi ghirri stopped in the middle of a peripheral road and created two different images. in our imagination we can barely hear his wise thinking while setting up his camera: \u201ci can shoot the dashed central line dividing the carragieways or i can move few steps away on the street side and shoot the line which defines the board of the countryside from the paved road\u201d. a magical conceptual performance made by his brain more than by his eyes. \n \n \n \n davide faccioli"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"87","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90398/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:11.877Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90398,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90399/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"robert doisneau ©   (gentilly, 1912 - montrouge, 1994)","it":"robert doisneau ©   (gentilly, 1912 - montrouge, 1994)"},"soldDate":"2025-04-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"gelatin silver print (printed 70\u2019s) \n \n cm 30 x 40 \n \n \n signed on recto in ink \n \n \n framed (dark blunt wood with plexi) size cm 49 x 59 x 1 \n \n \n original provenance: christie\u2019s, new york usa \n \n \n  \n \n \n it has become one of robert doisneau\u2019s most famous photographs. a world wide success reproduced on postcards, posters, and even on counterpanes and cushion covers. and yet, for a long time, this picture, one of a series taken for an article in time on the lovers of paris was not one of his most popular photographs. the eighties nostalgia for the fifties, blended its romanticism and lust for life with a yearning for a paris that no longer existed and the feeling of \u201cl\u2019amour, toujours l\u2019amour\u201d. it escapes being a cliché, standing out from the bleak photographs of today because of the way it makes us believe we can grab a tiny moment where place and time have no meaning and which only the lovers of this world have right to. this couple, a powerful symbol of passionate love is so convincing that many people have, in good faith, believed it was themselves. \n \n \n legal suits followed as some people realised they could make some money out of it putting the french slander laws to work. doisneau was forced to confess that he had paid two actors pose for it. the scene of ideal happiness was fake. at which point, some people felt impelled to take doisneau to task for the artificiality of the work despite its seeming so real and spontaneous. the somewhat contrived controversy fallacious photographic truth goes beyond the moment when the apparently real and the truly real meet. we have one question to ask, one that also holds true for all the images created by eugene smith. would we be better off without this icon? as i\u2019m not particularly keen on masochism, i don\u2019t want to get in my pleasure\u2019s way... \n \n \n \n christian caujolle \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology editions \n \n \n 100 to 2000 the century of photoart","it":"gelatin silver print (printed 70\u2019s) \n \n cm 30 x 40 \n \n \n signed on recto in ink \n \n \n framed (dark blunt wood with plexi) size cm 49 x 59 x 1 \n \n \n original provenance: christie\u2019s, new york usa \n \n \n  \n \n \n it has become one of robert doisneau\u2019s most famous photographs. a world wide success reproduced on postcards, posters, and even on counterpanes and cushion covers. and yet, for a long time, this picture, one of a series taken for an article in time on the lovers of paris was not one of his most popular photographs. the eighties nostalgia for the fifties, blended its romanticism and lust for life with a yearning for a paris that no longer existed and the feeling of \u201cl\u2019amour, toujours l\u2019amour\u201d. it escapes being a cliché, standing out from the bleak photographs of today because of the way it makes us believe we can grab a tiny moment where place and time have no meaning and which only the lovers of this world have right to. this couple, a powerful symbol of passionate love is so convincing that many people have, in good faith, believed it was themselves. \n \n \n legal suits followed as some people realised they could make some money out of it putting the french slander laws to work. doisneau was forced to confess that he had paid two actors pose for it. the scene of ideal happiness was fake. at which point, some people felt impelled to take doisneau to task for the artificiality of the work despite its seeming so real and spontaneous. the somewhat contrived controversy fallacious photographic truth goes beyond the moment when the apparently real and the truly real meet. we have one question to ask, one that also holds true for all the images created by eugene smith. would we be better off without this icon? as i\u2019m not particularly keen on masochism, i don\u2019t want to get in my pleasure\u2019s way... \n \n \n \n christian caujolle \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology editions \n \n \n 100 to 2000 the century of photoart"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"88","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90399/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":12000,"soldPrice":12000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:11.879Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90399,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90400/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"william eggleston ©   (memphis, tennessee, 1939)","it":"william eggleston ©   (memphis, tennessee, 1939)"},"available":false,"description":{"en":"pigment print \n \n cm 60x75 \n \n \n framed (white wood with plexi) size cm 70x92 \n \n \n signed on verso \n \n \n original provenance: cheim and read gallery, new york","it":"pigment print \n \n cm 60x75 \n \n \n framed (white wood with plexi) size cm 70x92 \n \n \n signed on verso \n \n \n original provenance: cheim and read gallery, new york"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"89","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90400/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":12000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:11.880Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90400,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":15000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90401/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"berenice abbott ©   ( springfield, ohio, 1898 - monson, maine, 1991)","it":"berenice abbott ©   ( springfield, ohio, 1898 - monson, maine, 1991)"},"soldDate":"2025-04-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"gelatin silver print (printed 70\u2019s) mounted on archival cardboard by the artist \n \n cm 56 x 45 \n \n \n signed on recto of archival board \n \n \n framed (aluminium with plexi) size cm 92 x 77 x 2,5 \n \n \n original provenance: g ray hawkins gallery, los angeles usa \n \n \n \n \n photographing this new york, the american metropolis emerging into the twentieth century as the symbol of modem urbanism, became the \u201cfantastic passion\u201d for berenice abbott. berenice abbott\u2019s lucid images of new york city remain an authoritative bridge linking the city\u2019s physical ascendancy with its historic and human dimensions. as with many of her contemporaries, abbott understood the novelty of her subject: a city analogous to a mythical phoenix, raising out of its nineteenth-century physical forms and the human ashes of financial collapse into a new, astonishing world that was both promising and harsh. in his impressive 1953 survey, the columbia historical portrait of new york john a. kounwenhoven wrote: \u201cin the early thirties, partly as a result of technical improvements in photography and partly as a consequence of the sobering effects of the great depression, there were basic changes in man\u2019s vision of the city. the soft focus which had lent charm to the affectionate camera studies of the \u201cpictorial photographers\u201d was discarded for the sharper \u201cdocumentary\u201d vision which inquired more bluntly inot the significance of urban forms...berenice abbott abandoned portraiture and began to make the magnificent series of documentary photographs which make up her camera portrait of \u201cchanging new york\u201d in which the city\u2019s contrasts of wealth and poverty, new and old, and all its stubbornly insistent incongruities are interpreted with uncompromising respect for fact.\u201d \n \n \n \n \n robert r. macdonald \n \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology editions \n \n \n 100 to 2000 the century of photoart","it":"gelatin silver print (printed 70\u2019s) mounted on archival cardboard by the artist \n \n cm 56 x 45 \n \n \n signed on recto of archival board \n \n \n framed (aluminium with plexi) size cm 92 x 77 x 2,5 \n \n \n original provenance: g ray hawkins gallery, los angeles usa \n \n \n \n \n photographing this new york, the american metropolis emerging into the twentieth century as the symbol of modem urbanism, became the \u201cfantastic passion\u201d for berenice abbott. berenice abbott\u2019s lucid images of new york city remain an authoritative bridge linking the city\u2019s physical ascendancy with its historic and human dimensions. as with many of her contemporaries, abbott understood the novelty of her subject: a city analogous to a mythical phoenix, raising out of its nineteenth-century physical forms and the human ashes of financial collapse into a new, astonishing world that was both promising and harsh. in his impressive 1953 survey, the columbia historical portrait of new york john a. kounwenhoven wrote: \u201cin the early thirties, partly as a result of technical improvements in photography and partly as a consequence of the sobering effects of the great depression, there were basic changes in man\u2019s vision of the city. the soft focus which had lent charm to the affectionate camera studies of the \u201cpictorial photographers\u201d was discarded for the sharper \u201cdocumentary\u201d vision which inquired more bluntly inot the significance of urban forms...berenice abbott abandoned portraiture and began to make the magnificent series of documentary photographs which make up her camera portrait of \u201cchanging new york\u201d in which the city\u2019s contrasts of wealth and poverty, new and old, and all its stubbornly insistent incongruities are interpreted with uncompromising respect for fact.\u201d \n \n \n \n \n robert r. macdonald \n \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology editions \n \n \n 100 to 2000 the century of photoart"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"90","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90401/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":15000,"soldPrice":14000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:11.881Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90401,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":15000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90402/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"gregory crewdson ©   (brooklyn, new york, 1962)","it":"gregory crewdson ©   (brooklyn, new york, 1962)"},"soldDate":"2025-04-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"vintage c-print \n \n cm 120 x 150 \n \n \n edition 8/10 \n \n \n signed on verso on gallery label \n \n \n framed (black wood with plexi) size cm 135 x 160 x 2 \n \n \n original provenance: emily tsingou gallery, london uk \n \n \n  \n \n \n \u201c...more than merely stills from never-before shot films, the traces of crewdson\u2019s universe are cinematic precisely because they play with time in the way cinema does: with both time and dream. we look at this world and it\u2019s a place we know: we may not like it, nor wish to recognize it, it may make us uncomfortable and squeamish, be over-laden with sinister overtones and unnaturally still but it has an exoticism that is profoundly familiar. the deal that cinema makes with time - capturing, tricking, annexing, faking -this is a deal crewdson makes with our memories and fantasies. \n \n \n his is a world our unconsciousness has occupied, a dream we have been visited by, a fantasy we have entertained, even peripherally, under the flicker of an eyelid. it is the domain below, the space under the stairs, the shadows beneath the roses where crewdson takes us to. here is uncertainty, hesitation, the gulp, the hanging in the balance the space between possibilities, the hiatus before...\u201d \n \n \n \n tilda swinton \n \n \n \n © 2008 photology editions \n \n \n gregory crewdson dream house","it":"vintage c-print \n \n cm 120 x 150 \n \n \n edition 8/10 \n \n \n signed on verso on gallery label \n \n \n framed (black wood with plexi) size cm 135 x 160 x 2 \n \n \n original provenance: emily tsingou gallery, london uk \n \n \n  \n \n \n \u201c...more than merely stills from never-before shot films, the traces of crewdson\u2019s universe are cinematic precisely because they play with time in the way cinema does: with both time and dream. we look at this world and it\u2019s a place we know: we may not like it, nor wish to recognize it, it may make us uncomfortable and squeamish, be over-laden with sinister overtones and unnaturally still but it has an exoticism that is profoundly familiar. the deal that cinema makes with time - capturing, tricking, annexing, faking -this is a deal crewdson makes with our memories and fantasies. \n \n \n his is a world our unconsciousness has occupied, a dream we have been visited by, a fantasy we have entertained, even peripherally, under the flicker of an eyelid. it is the domain below, the space under the stairs, the shadows beneath the roses where crewdson takes us to. here is uncertainty, hesitation, the gulp, the hanging in the balance the space between possibilities, the hiatus before...\u201d \n \n \n \n tilda swinton \n \n \n \n © 2008 photology editions \n \n \n gregory crewdson dream house"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"91","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90402/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":15000,"soldPrice":14000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:06.928Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90402,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":20000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90403/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"bill brandt ©   (amburgo, 1904 - londra, 1983)","it":"bill brandt ©   (amburgo, 1904 - londra, 1983)"},"soldDate":"2025-04-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"early gelatin silver print (printed 60\u2019s) mounted on archival cardboard by the artist \n \n cm 34 x 29 \n \n \n signed on recto of archival board \n \n \n framed (dark wood and golden frieze + plexi) size cm 69 x 55 x 3 \n \n \n original provenance: phillips, new york usa \n \n \n \n the face is recognisable as that of a woman, although the blackness - it seems too black and too isolating to be mere shadow - pares the face down to key forms. the nipple indicates a breast in the lower right hand corner. the band of white which crosses and recrosses the frame of the photograph, creating new shapes and new angles as it does so, is just recognisable as an arm. like a draughtsman of consummate skill, brandt sketches in his subject with a minimum of effort. and yet there are enough mid-tones to indicate the modelling of the breast and of the mouth. because we are not shown the left hand it is possible not only to imagine the woman resting her head gently against it, but also to imagine the fingers holding a mask in the form of a face. \n \n \n nor do the possible readings end there. because the elements of face, breast and arm are only loosely associated against a black background, it is possible to see the face detached and floating free in the void - a rising moon with a face like those in children\u2019s storybooks, gazing dolefully down out of a night sky. this photograph is one of the most compact and yet complex that brandt has produced, and is extraordinary in that it can carry all these meanings simultaneously. \n \n \n \n michael hiley \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology \n \n \n editions 100 to 2000 the century of photoart","it":"early gelatin silver print (printed 60\u2019s) mounted on archival cardboard by the artist \n \n cm 34 x 29 \n \n \n signed on recto of archival board \n \n \n framed (dark wood and golden frieze + plexi) size cm 69 x 55 x 3 \n \n \n original provenance: phillips, new york usa \n \n \n \n the face is recognisable as that of a woman, although the blackness - it seems too black and too isolating to be mere shadow - pares the face down to key forms. the nipple indicates a breast in the lower right hand corner. the band of white which crosses and recrosses the frame of the photograph, creating new shapes and new angles as it does so, is just recognisable as an arm. like a draughtsman of consummate skill, brandt sketches in his subject with a minimum of effort. and yet there are enough mid-tones to indicate the modelling of the breast and of the mouth. because we are not shown the left hand it is possible not only to imagine the woman resting her head gently against it, but also to imagine the fingers holding a mask in the form of a face. \n \n \n nor do the possible readings end there. because the elements of face, breast and arm are only loosely associated against a black background, it is possible to see the face detached and floating free in the void - a rising moon with a face like those in children\u2019s storybooks, gazing dolefully down out of a night sky. this photograph is one of the most compact and yet complex that brandt has produced, and is extraordinary in that it can carry all these meanings simultaneously. \n \n \n \n michael hiley \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology \n \n \n editions 100 to 2000 the century of photoart"},"estimateMax":2400,"lotNumber":"92","url":"https://it.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/bertolamifineart/source/catalog/auction/57986/lot/90403/view","tags":["itArt_Photography","itArt","itArt_all"],"directSalePrice":20000,"soldPrice":19000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-21T18:45:06.930Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1 - \u20ac2,400","currency":"EUR","id":90403,"estimateMin":1},{"startPrice":20000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/bertolamifineart/cloned-images/90404/001/001.jpg"],"artist":{"en":"joel-peter witkin ©   (brooklyn, new york, 1939)","it":"joel-peter witkin ©   (brooklyn, new york, 1939)"},"soldDate":"2025-04-11","available":false,"description":{"en":"vintage gelatin silver print \n \n cm 78 x 100 \n \n \n signed, titled and editioned on verso \n \n \n edition 10/12 \n \n \n framed (black wood) size cm 107 x 120 x 3,5 \n \n \n original provenance: pace mcgill gallery, new york usa \n \n \n \n our voyeurism is excited by the severed head. a severed head is a conclusive proof that its owner is irrevocably dead; and in western cultural history, a severed head probably means a judicial punishment however misplaced, witness salome\u2019s john the baptist, judith\u2019s holofernes, elizabeth\u2019s mary queen of scott, charles i, oliver cromwell, danton, louis xvi and marie antoiette. charles i was reunited, body and head, in his coffin, whilst the decaying corpse of his enemy, cromwell, was decapitated and the head exhibited on tower bridge and then blackened with soot in a chimney for a hundred years until it was politically safe to exhibit it as a trophy. this could be cromwell\u2019s head - his features held in a tight smiling grimace, his brain-pan sectioned to examine his revolutionary politics, out of which flowers the lilies of early democracy - my subjectivity on fire here - but that\u2019s the way it goes with witkin - hints of turgid history revisited and distressed for a surprised viewer to smile, grimace and shudder all at the same time. \n \n \n my local severed head interest is with the case of a certain heroine of boccaccio and of keats who put her lover\u2019s head in a pot to furnish a basil plant with nitrogenous energy. \n \n \n but within knows that there are so many, and so much older, examples. crevalcore painted my favourite - a saint catherine of alexandria, complete with lachrymose open eyes and evidence of two hacks of the axe. \n \n \n and there is often painted severed head of the gorgon which is strong precedent here through the example of caravaggio\u2019s portrait of the same, for here also are caravaggio\u2019s signature fruit and flowers presented on a shallow table in a shallow space against black. the black and whiteness of the image perhaps gives its subject matter a neutral documentary air and helps to suggest a surreal piquancy of a death on a bourgeois sideboard in the shadow of an afternoon sitting-room. \n \n \n we should not be alarmed. witkin\u2019s normal vocabulary of distressed surface and damaged patina - as though the print had been left to rot on a highway hard shoulder, or in an undertaker\u2019s dustbin, is here absent - this photograph of a decapitated loved one has come to us safely from the pages of a family album - first cousin albert, whose body is where it should be in the family tomb, but whose head, via an innocent- enough post mortem investigation, is with us now. may he rest in peace - \u201cwould you like a grape?\u201d . \n \n \n \n peter greenaway \n \n \n \n © 2000 photology editions 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