Serge Vandercam
Les crochets
1952
Vintage gelatin silver print. 17.8 x 13 cm. Photographer's stamp on the verso. - The upper left corner with creases..
Serge Vandercam noticed the hooks hanging over a wall quite by chance as he was about to portray his artist colleague Pol Bury. In the lens of the camera, Les Crochets become a photographic “objet trouvé” open to all sorts of associations.
Catalogue Raisonné
Inventory no. 1
Literature
COBRA. COpenhagen BRüssel Amsterdam, exhib.cat. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung München, Munich 1997, ill. p. 203 (cat. 170) of a copy print of this print; Serge Vandercam. Photographe Cobra, exhib.cat. Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi, Charleroi 1998, ill. p. 21; Serge Vandercam. Cobra fotograaf/Photographe Cobra, exhib.cat. Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke, Knokke 2002, n. pag, ill. and ill. on front cover