RONALD GUNN - Unoriginal Sins

04 Oct ROCK/WAVE. HIC IACET PARVULUM…. 1969.

Posted at 11:15h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave alongside a stone sculpture inscribed "HIC IACET PARVULUM QUODDAM EX AQUA LONGIORE EXCERPTUM" (HERE LIES A SMALL BREAK IN THE WATER). This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

04 Oct PLANET NET. 1969.

Posted at 11:12h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.8 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing a close up of the signpost in FInlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg "salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "herring net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

04 Oct PLANET NET. 1969.

Posted at 11:09h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 35cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing the signpost in Finlay's garden at Little Sparta - each of the signs has a different form of the word "net" eg ""salmon net", "drift net" and as can be seen here "trawl net" but the final sign reads "planet". This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

04 Oct ROCK/WAVE. 1969.

Posted at 11:08h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 38cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print showing Ian Hamilton Finlay's wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. The words seem to form a wave that crashes onto the rocks and breaks up. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

04 Oct ROCK/WAVE. 1969.

Posted at 11:04h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 30.5 x 30.8cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a portion of a Ian Hamilton Finlay wall relief with the concrete poem rock/wave. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct SEAS/EASE. 1969.

Posted at 17:26h in Photographs

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows the work Seas/Ease with the words raised up from the hexagonal back stone to create "waves" which are stilled at the middle with the word ease. One of a number of such prints issued by Finlay in collaboration with Ronald Gunn. The photographer's copyright stamp is found on the back of the photograph. VG+. ...

03 Oct KY 365. 1969.

Posted at 17:22h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. The photograph shows a different version of the KY sculpture where the KY stands for a boat (being the code for Kirkcaldy) and the number 365, the days in the year. Additionally nearby tree trunks symbolise the masts of boats - the landscape being therefore compared with a seascape. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct KY. 1969.

Posted at 17:19h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 20 x 25.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture (in extreme closeup) installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...

03 Oct KY. 1969.

Posted at 17:14h in Photographs, Uncategorised

Edinburgh: Ronald Gunn, n.d. (1969) 38 x 30.5cm, b/w silver gelatine photographic print displaying a Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture installed in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, in 1969. This is one of a number of editioned photographs Finlay issued with Gunn. The back of the print has the photographer's copyright stamp. Some soft creases to the large sheet and one small diagonal crease bottom right (not affecting image) else VG. Scarce. ...