Lot 21: Michael James Aleck Snow 1929 - Canadian

Michael James Aleck Snow 1929 - Canadian dye-transfer colour photographs Still Living - 4 Acts - Scene I 26 x 20 1/2 inches 66 x 52.1 centimeters editioned 1/10 Literature:Dennis Reid, Philip Monk and Louise Dompierre, The Michael Snow Project, Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant, 1994, listed page 511 Provenance:The Isaacs Gallery Ltd., Toronto Private Collection, Toronto Exhibited:Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant, Toronto, The Michael Snow Project: Embodied Vision, May 11 - June 5, 1994, same portfolio, catalogue #40 This complete limited edition portfolio consists of 36 colour dye-transfer photographic images on nine sheets, plus the title page, which states: "The 36 photographs in this edition were originally SX70 Polaroids. The prints were made by the dye transfer process. Half-tone separation negatives were made using a scanner." One negative was made for each of three colours: magenta, cyan and yellow. The matrices needed for the final print were made from the e separation negatives. The prints were assembled by soaking the gelatin matrices in the various dye baths and transferring each layer to the receiving medium for various lengths of time. They were made in collaboration with Michael Snow by Nino Mondhe, head of the dye-transfer department at Creative Colour Laboratories in Germany. The edition is limited to 10 hand-painted portfolios. The four images on page five were also part of a portfolio of photographs by various photographers produced by Anthology Film Archives, New York in 1982. The title, Still Living - 4 Acts - Scene I, and the use of the word "page", are attempts to indicate the merging of textual, painting, sculptural, theatrical and photographic concerns, which was the ambition of the work. Also included in this lot is the artist's original instructions for framing the portfolio.