Lot 57: DONIGAN CUMMING

DONIGAN CUMMING The Stage . Montreal: Maquam Press, 1991. Small quarto (244 x 165mm). 248 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated card covers. Original black and white print (255 x 200mm), signed in pencil on the verso. Cumming's annotations in black pen at the foot of the image. FIRST EDITION, A UNIQUE COPY WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE SUBJECTS IDENTIFIED BY CUMMING, AND WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH: 'Rock'. In many cases Cumming has also annotated the images with the subject's current status: 'alive', 'alive?', 'gone mad', 'beaten to death', 'dead', etc. The photograph is a repro print, one of the prints sent to the plate-maker, and identified as such by Cumming on the verso. 'Donigan Cumming is a unique talent. The only photographer who can be compared to him in terms of making transgressive portraits is Diane Arbus'; 'each individual portrait represents a little psychodrama played out on the stage that is the picture frame' ( The Photobook ). The Photobook , vol. II, p.117. (2)

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