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SIMON PROCTER"The Battle of Orgreave (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder" Simon Procter C-print2019
2019
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"The Battle of Orgreave (after Pieter Bruegel the Elder)" C-print by fine art photographer Simon Procter. Mounted on an aluminum panel with plexiglass glazing.
The Battle of Orgreave was a violent confrontation on June 18, 1984, between police and picketers at a British Steel Corporation coking plant at Orgreave, in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. It was a pivotal event in the 1984–85 UK miners' strike, and one of the most violent clashes in British industrial history. The incident has often been described by political historians as medieval, and, indeed, police cavalry charged the union workers with long nightsticks.
The work is heavily influenced by the Flemish masterpiece "The Triumph of Death," by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. On the distant hills bodies are tortured upon cartwheels held aloft, which bear striking similarities to the winding gear towers found all across the mining villages of Britain. In the right-hand corner we see a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC—the state-owned television channel) truck. As the violence began, the BBC re-edited critical footage to make it appear as if the miners attacked the police. This was seen across the country on the evening news and public support of the miners dropped dramatically and was a key factor in the collapse of the strike. It was later claimed to have been an accident and no one was ever held accountable.
Procter, a renowned International fashion photographer, repurposed a decade of his celebrated high-end Parisian photo shoots, recasting the miners as beautiful models adorned in haute couture, re-emphasizing the grotesque tragedy and, at the same time, referencing his own personal journey between the two very different worlds. Procter is the son of a steel worker and grew up during the strike, in Royston, a mining village close to Orgreave.
- Creator:SIMON PROCTER (1968, British)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 47.25 in (120.02 cm)Width: 105.125 in (267.02 cm)
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- Condition:Not previously owned, but some minor scratches on back of aluminum and residue on front top edges. (See detail images.).
- Gallery Location:Boca Raton, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1554212602222
SIMON PROCTER
Simon Procter was born in 1968 in Lancashire, Northern England. He studied fine art for many years, originally focusing on both painting and sculpture, and holds a B.A. Honors degree in Fine Art from Trent University, United Kingdom. Procter moved to Paris in the late ‘90s and, while doing a variety of odd jobs in the city, met one of the associates at Visionaire. Thereafter, Procter took up photography and used his unique fine art aesthetic to develop a photographic technique that captures and documents the grand scale of fashion shows and the architectural spaces in which they take place. This synthesis of fashion photography and classical painting distinguishes Procter’s work. His first fashion photography endeavor was shooting a Dior show from 100 feet above the runway. The resulting images were published in two major stories in “V Magazine” and exhibited at Colette, with a sponsorship by both Armani and Prada. He has since produced works for Adidas Y-3, L’Oréal Paris, Christian Dior, Armani, Chanel, and Stella McCartney among others. His photography has been featured in numerous publications including “Vogue Nippon,” “Harper’s Bazaar” and “The New York Times” and has been exhibited in Paris’ Grand Palais, the Moscow Museum of Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It was also the subject of a coffee-table book, “Lagerfeld: The Chanel Shows,” published by Rizzoli in 2019.
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