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Peter Peryer 'Headless Chicken'
Estimate:
$4,000 - $6,000
Sold
$3,000
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203 'The world is a strange place' - The Grant Kerr Photography Collection
ARTIST
Peter Peryer
Description
Peter Peryer
Headless Chicken
gelatin silver print, edition of 15 (1995)
500 x 404mm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist.
Collection: An edition of this photograph is held in the University of Auckland Art collection and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection.
For some years I had the idea that a chicken carcass would be an interesting object to photograph. Eventually I bought this organic unfrozen one for photographing first and editing second. I screwed a brass hook into an outside wall and attached the body, believing it to be important to have outside light falling on it whilst it was vertical, rather than lying flat on a table or dish. Soon, I would like to photograph chicken entrails, not to foretell the future I would hasten to add, but because I just like the shapes and patterns. As a country boy, one of my regular chores was to kill chickens for the evening table, so I was brought up on the sight, and just as vividly, on the smells. — Peter Peryer
Headless Chicken
gelatin silver print, edition of 15 (1995)
500 x 404mm
Provenance: Purchased from the artist.
Collection: An edition of this photograph is held in the University of Auckland Art collection and the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection.
For some years I had the idea that a chicken carcass would be an interesting object to photograph. Eventually I bought this organic unfrozen one for photographing first and editing second. I screwed a brass hook into an outside wall and attached the body, believing it to be important to have outside light falling on it whilst it was vertical, rather than lying flat on a table or dish. Soon, I would like to photograph chicken entrails, not to foretell the future I would hasten to add, but because I just like the shapes and patterns. As a country boy, one of my regular chores was to kill chickens for the evening table, so I was brought up on the sight, and just as vividly, on the smells. — Peter Peryer
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