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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 12, 2011 | Binoche et Giquello | Paris | L'ART DEPUIS LA PHOTOGRAPHIE | 286 | $****** - ****** | Ben James, Miner from Caerau, Wales |
photographs
24.7 x 33.7 cm (9.72 x 13.27 in)
Gelatin silver print
signed, artist wetstamps, print date, annotations verso
ROBERT FRANK (1924)
Ben James, Miner from Caerau, Wales 1953 Printed by the artist and signed, 1979 Épreuve argentique, 247x337 mm, signée, coloration brune Gelatin silver print, signed, artist wetstamps, print date, annotations verso, brownish colour In March 1953, Frank travelled to Caerau, a mining village in Glamorgan, South Wales. He decided to create a series of photographs based around the daily life of the 53-year-old Ben James, who had worked down the pits since he was 14. Frank followed James into the mines. The Caerau colliery was already in decline, and employed a fraction of the workforce it had supported 30 years earlier. When Frank"s photographs were published in U.S. Camera magazine in 1955, he wrote: "I could have followed a livelier and perhaps more colourful Welsh miner but I"m happy I decided to portray Ben James. When I said farewell to him I realised that no future story on any Welsh miner will look as this one does." (Tate Modern, Storylines, 2003)
