Portfolio of photographs of gardens, Seine-et-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines, France
1981
Gelatin silver prints
portfolio (closed): 33,3 x 57,1 x 3,4 cm comps. (range [some irreg.]): 8,4 to 9,1 x 26,4 to 26,6 cm sheets (range [most irreg.]): 11,1 to 12,7 x 29,4 to 31 cm
PH1982:0808:001-010
imprinted - on the cover and title page, in typescript, in grey ink, c.: with title and the photographer's name imprinted - on the table of contents, in typescript, in grey ink, c.l.: "I Fontainebleau, Le Jardin de Diane, 1981 / II Fontainebleau, The Canal, 1981 / III St. Cloud, 1981 / IV St. Cloud, 1981 / V St. Cloud, 1981"; and c.r.: "VI Sceau [sic], 1981 / VII Fontainebleau, 1981/ VIII Sceau [sic], 1981 / IX Marly-le-Roi, 1981 / X Marly-le-Roi, 1981"; and l.l. to l.r.: "This portfolio has been produced in an edition of 20, with a further five examples hors commerce. Published 1981 in / collaboration with Yajima Galerie, Montreal [sic]." numbered and signed - on the table of contents, by the photographer, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "[This is portfolio] No.: 9/20 / Geoffrey James" imprinted - on the third page, in typescript, in grey ink, c.l. to c.r.: "At last they went down to the flower-garden. This was a / huge rectangle, where in a single glance the eye could take in / the broad yellow paths, the squares of turf, the ribbons of / box, the conical yews, the low shrubs, and the narrow beds / in which scattered flowers stood out brightly against the / grey earth. Beyond the garden there was a park, with a long canal / stretching the whole length of it. / Royal residences have a melancholy all their own, which is / probably due to the disproportion between their immensity / and the tiny number of inhabitants, to their silence, which / seems surprising after so many fanfares have been sounded / there, and to their unchanging luxury, which proves by its / antiquity the transience of dynasties, the inevitable imper- / manence of all things; and this emanation of the past, as / overpowering and funereal as the scent of mummy, affects / even the simplest mind. / Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education
France
© Geoffrey James
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