Nigel Henderson
Linda Provocative, 1977
Mixed Photographic Processes
51 x 41 cms
20 1/16 x 16 2/16 ins
12452
Provenance
Mayor Gallery, LondonRichard Saltoun Gallery, London
Mixed technique photographic processes on paper with pen and ink, titled in pen lower left. Henderson's work explored different aspects of photography that ranged from documentary street photography, as in...
Mixed technique photographic processes on paper with pen and ink, titled in pen lower left.
Henderson's work explored different aspects of photography that ranged from documentary street photography, as in his pictures of Bethnal Green, to darkroom experimentation and frequently saw him explore aspects of collage and processes of repurposing the image.
The present work is an example of what Henderson described as a "stressed" photograph, which he began in 1951 and involoved distorting the pohotgraphic paper during enlargement in the dark room.
Entitled Linda Provocative this picture is one of several works of the mid 1970s that references Linda and that includes a collage series entitled Lovely Linda in which the present image, in less distorted form, is prominent.
The starting point for this series was a photograph of a woman that was found on the floor of a bus: 'The first example of this new approach came about in the late 1970s in what is known as the Lovely Linda series, when a student of Henderson's showed him a print of a woman he had found on the floor of a bus and of which Henderson imagined that it must have fallen from a wallet, where it had been conserved lovingly, gazed upon from time to time to provide a momentary lift - like a double-whisky (see Victoria Walsh, Nigel Henderson, Parallel of Life and Art, London, 2001, pp. 133-134).
The picture dates from the moment that Henderson had a retrospective at Kettles Yard in Cambridge and an exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London.
Henderson's work explored different aspects of photography that ranged from documentary street photography, as in his pictures of Bethnal Green, to darkroom experimentation and frequently saw him explore aspects of collage and processes of repurposing the image.
The present work is an example of what Henderson described as a "stressed" photograph, which he began in 1951 and involoved distorting the pohotgraphic paper during enlargement in the dark room.
Entitled Linda Provocative this picture is one of several works of the mid 1970s that references Linda and that includes a collage series entitled Lovely Linda in which the present image, in less distorted form, is prominent.
The starting point for this series was a photograph of a woman that was found on the floor of a bus: 'The first example of this new approach came about in the late 1970s in what is known as the Lovely Linda series, when a student of Henderson's showed him a print of a woman he had found on the floor of a bus and of which Henderson imagined that it must have fallen from a wallet, where it had been conserved lovingly, gazed upon from time to time to provide a momentary lift - like a double-whisky (see Victoria Walsh, Nigel Henderson, Parallel of Life and Art, London, 2001, pp. 133-134).
The picture dates from the moment that Henderson had a retrospective at Kettles Yard in Cambridge and an exhibition at Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London.