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Dye transfer print, the 1958 original negative reformatted and printed probably in 1981. Image 19-1/2 x 12-3/4 in., flush mounted on archival card mounted to stiff Bainbridge Board. Signed in black ink by the artist lower right recto, "Gordon Parks." In its 1981 polished-face aluminum plexiglas-glazed exhibition frame 19-5/8 x 13 x 1/8 in. Fine condition, apart from a 2 mm perimeter strip of mat burn from a spacer in the frame, and a small, almost invisibly domed area in the black background top center. One of an edition of 25 exhibited at the Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York in 1981, with the exhibition label on the cardboard backing of the frame. A pencil notation in cursive handwriting adjacent the label reads "5/25 GP." The 1958 full image is the third selection in Parks's volume of photographs and poetry, A Poet and His Camera (1968). The original image juxtaposes three separate exposures: the beautifully modeled hand holding the fan; the apparition of the face behind the fan; and the separate veiled visage upper left. The 1981 cropping masks the hand below and the entire left side with all the imagery of the second face. The palette, too, was simplified to exclude original oranges and olives in favor of overall reds and blues. References: DiGrappa, Carol, Inner Visions, Camera Arts, New York: Ziff Davis, vol. 2, no. 2 (March/April 1982), pp. 20-4, 105-6 (on Parks's manipulated dye transfer prints combining painting and photography); Parks, Gordon, Half Past Autumn: a Retrospective, Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1997 (accompanying the exhibition organized by and held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sept. 1997 - Jan. 1998, then at nine other museums, Feb. 1998 - Dec. 2001), p. [303] (the original full image from 1958); Parks, Gordon, A Poet and His Camera, New York: Viking Press, 1968, third plate (no pagination) (the original full image from 1958). Provenance: Estate of Gordon Parks. Seller Inventory # ABE-1533056605763
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