William Klein - GUN 2 - image-1

Lot 128 Rα

William Klein - GUN 2

Auction 941 - overview Cologne
27.05.2009, 00:00 - Photography
Estimate: 1.000 € - 1.500 €
Result: 1.200 € (incl. premium)

Gelatin silver print, printed 1982. 23,8 x 34,5 cm (30,3 x 40,3 cm). Signed, dated, titled and with dedication in pencil on the verso. - Mounted under a mat.

The french philosopher Roland Barthes published this photograph in his famous standard reference work on photogrphy, "Camera Lucida" (1980).

Literature

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida. Reflections on Photography, New York 1981; Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (ed.), William Klein. Retrospective exhibition, Paris 2005, ill. p. 44; Roland Barthes, Die helle Kammer. Bemerkung zur Photographie, Frankfurt am Main 1989, S. 19.