€ollecting Photograph$ Rudolf Koppitz William Klein Cindy Sherman Charles Jones TEFAF Maastricht 2010 Photography

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Rudolf Koppitz 1925 vintage print (Euro 160.000)

Bewegungsstudie (Movement Study No. 1), 1925

This dramatic study of a group of Russian dancers... remains in the minds of all who view it.
Jo-Ann Conklin

'Bewegungsstudie' (Movement Study) is surely the most widely published and best known image in Austrian photography from the early decades of the last century. This is for good reason, as no photograph better captures the cultural strands that characterised the Austrian avant-garde at that time. Here one can see a graphic strength and compositional clarity that reflects the modernist ambitions initiated in the fine as in the applied arts by the Secession and by the Wiener Werkstätte. But what gives the image its power is the aura of mystery, of symbolist sensuality that resonates through this enigmatic grouping of the three uniformly coiffed and draped figures and the one single naked figure

William Klein -Street scene in Rome (Vintage 1957, 6300 euro)

Cindy Sherman - Untitled filmstill #33 (1979) , see for a review ...

Beans ca 1900 Charles Jones & lees verder ...

In 1981, at Bermondsey Market in London, Sean Sexton, the Irish born photographic collector, chanced upon the gelatin silver prints of Charles Jones. Dating from the turn of the century, these beguiling studio "portraits" of tulips and sunflowers, onions and turnips, plums and pears display both astonishing skill and startling originality. Their close-up viewpoint, long exposure and spare composition anticipates by decades the later achievements of modernist masters.