Lot 277: Untitled

Richard Billingham (b. 1970)
Untitled
four colour coupler prints mounted on aluminium
each: 48 x 48in. (122 x 122cm.)
Executed in 1998

Athens, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, New Aquisitions , February-March 2001.
Athens, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Momument to Now , June 2004-March 2005.

Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.

The immediate or extended family may be one of photography's great subjects, but there's nothing more boring than looking through a stranger's photo album. So why is it that the family pictures of Richard Billingham, a young British photographer, exert such a fascination upon me?

Is this family really so different from my own, or that of anyone else? The factor which places Billingham's pictures apart is not the extremity of what they depict but their symbolic resonance.

The power of these images is both individual and cumulative.

(Mark Sladen, A Family Affair; Richard Billingham's Ray's A Laugh, frieze magazine Issue 28 May 1996).


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