SEASONS. 1994. ONE OF 35 SIGNED & NUMBERED PHOTOGRAPHS. FROM "DEAR STIEGLITZ".
SEASONS. 1994. ONE OF 35 SIGNED & NUMBERED PHOTOGRAPHS. FROM "DEAR STIEGLITZ".
Peninsula: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1985
50 x 40cm, silver gelatine print. The photograph of the stream by Robin Gillanders is combined with a short poem by Finlay.
the brown streamthe black streamthe blue stream the silver stream
The same phrase is repeated with only the colour changing each time. Gillander's photograph is in b/w so one might imagine it in different colours as per the poem - and the water having a different history each time - silver being related to fish or speed, blue in reflections or the sea, black from coal or dirt or darkness and brown from pollution or soil. This edition is from a portfolio called ‘Dear Stieglitz,’ named in homage to Alfred Stieglitz, the photographer and gallery owner who published the art-photography journal ‘Camera Work’ in the early Twentieth century.
On the reverse is a label with details of the portfolio and image and it is signed by Finlay and numbered in pencil from the edition of only 35 copies. VG+.