Lot 751: SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)

SAMUEL FOSSO (B. 1962)
Self Portrait, 1977
gelatin silver print
signed in ink, credit and date stamps (on the verso)
6 3/8 x 4 1/8in. (16.2 x 10.6cm.)

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, NEW YORK

'...I am both character and director. I don't put myself in the photographs: my work is based on specific situations and people I am familiar with, things I desire, reworked in my imagination and afterward interpreted. I borrow identities.' Fosso, Art Photography Now, Aperture, 2006, p. 44