Throughout our research, print hunting, discoveries, our curious exploring dealers’ eyes encounter anonymous image/objects which draw us in, create an occular tension, go tilt, arouse curiosity and/or a particular emotion. We harvest prints which seem interesting to preserve, set aside, study, identify, in the eventual hope we will pass them onto other photography afficonados.
We work on a criteria of quality. Choices are motivated by aesthetics as much as by process, the subject matter as much as its relation to the period in which the photograph was taken. Then we try to place the image in a context : to date it. After which we try to reduce the field by inscribing the image in a school of thought.
To our eyes, an anonymous photograph can have as much value as a signed print or a iconic image. What is an anonymous print? It is a print without a signature, without a name. Either it was shot by an amateur, or by a reknowned photographer, perhaps a great name who did not have the pretention to sign. Wasn’t Man Ray’s rayogram a happy accident, discovered by an informed eye?
For this exhibition, we open boxes we do not usually share. Certain prints will not be for sale. This temporary anonymous space will be shared with the visitors, the amateurs, the specialists, in order to pursue the goal of identification or to search for new leads to explore, new axes of thought.
Exhibition curated by Joseph Delarue and Christophe Lunn in coordination with the Mois de la Photo 2014.
Christophe Lunn
EXHIBITION
In part of Mois de la Photo 2014
Anonymes, A identifier
1 – 30 november, 2014
Photo Vivienne
4, Galerie Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
Tuesday – Friday 2pm-7pm, saturday 11am – 7pm and by appointment.
