IMAGINING YVETTE. c. 1974. UNIQUE PHOTOGRAPH. SIGNED.
£995.00
102 x 76cm backing panel with handwritten text by Collins and a 51 x 60cm, unique c-print showing the artist in the foreground and a semi-naked female (Yvette) reading in the background.
The text in pencil reads “Imagining girls I don’t know is as interesting as watching them. I also like second-hand information. That’s why I’m not looking at, but just imagining Yvette in this still from a super-8 loop. “I was naughty” was all she’d say. Three things interest me: Yvette is a stranger; she’s perhaps doing what she thinks I like; and most important I am getting my pleasure second hand. I don’t know and never actually see what Yvette does. Only after the film is processed do I see her, and then only through photographs.”
A conceptual underpinning to Collin’s photographic work that else at times seems voyeuristic.
There is some grubbiness to the backing card (a footprint!) which could be removed with care and some wear at the corners but the c-print is in near fine condition.
Signed and dated (’74) by Collins bottom right. A unique work.
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