Live Auction 3458Triple XXX: Photographs from the Collection of Don Sanders
JOCK STURGES (B. 1947)
Lot 312 How I work with my models...We spend time together, know each other, family to family, for years. We are friends. And once in a while we make pictures together... After empathy, I believe that there is no more important aspect of character in a photographic artist than humility. Our best images so often arrive by chance. We are entirely dependent on what is outside us, in the world, for our art. Without a subject, without models, we are nothing and thus, in my own mathematics, I never consider myself more important than the people I photograph. Without them I don't exist. Nope.
Jock Sturges

JOCK STURGES (B. 1947)

'Montalivet, France', 2010

Closed29 September 2014

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JOCK STURGES (B. 1947)
'Montalivet, France', 2010
a unique suite of 20 archival pigment prints
each signed, titled, dated, numbered 'AP1' in pencil and copyright blindstamp (in the margin); accompanying text insert, signed in ink; contained in customized large folio box
image: each 18½ x 14 5/8in. (47 x 37.3cm.) or the reverse
sheet: each 20 x 16in. (50.7 x 61cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist

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Every summer for the past 34 years, Jock Sturges has been photographing in Montalivet, a beautiful and unspoiled seaside retreat in the South of France which boasts one of the oldest naturalist colonies anywhere. Don Sanders has been given the pick of the work made during these retreats since the early 2000s, resulting in exceptional and unique suites of photographs. See lots 344 and 356 for other examples of the artist's work taken in this idyllic location.