Chris Smith

Everlast - Chris Smith, Muhammad Ali, Ali, black and white, boxing, 48x34.5 in

Chris Smith (b.1937) Float like a Butterfly 1971 silver gelatin fibre based print 20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in. signed and numbered printed later This work is available in the following sizes (paper size): 20 x 30 in., edition of 25 plus 2 AP, £3,000 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) 34.5 x 48 in., edition of 50 plus 2 AP, £6,600 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) 46 x 66 in., edition of 25 plus 2 AP, £9,600 GBP (inc. 20% UK VAT) Provenance: Direct from the artist’s studio Notes: All photographs are signed and numbered and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the photographer. 'Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee...

Chris Smith (b.1937) Everlast silver gelatin fibre based print 30 x 20 in. / 48 x 34.5 in. / 66 x 46 in. signed and numbered printed later This work is available in the following si...

Chris Smith (b.1937) Mug Shot 1971 silver gelatin fibre based print 20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in. signed and numbered printed later This work is available in the followi...

Chris Smith (b.1937) Hard at the Gym 1971 silver gelatin fibre based print 20 x 30 in. / 34.5 x 48 in. / 46 x 66 in. signed and numbered printed later This work is available in the ...

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...

Woman, Women, Fashion, Beach, Black and White, Sand, Swimmer, Pose, Hips, Body, Bathing suit, figurative, female, feminine



"Chains of love" is in a series of portraits by Jan Saudek, depicting two figures – either male or female chained together. In this work, the two models...