Property from a Private Collection, France
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Fernell Franco
Untitled from Prostitutas
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- £6,000 - 8,000
£10,000
Lot Details
Toned gelatin silver print.
1970-1972
38 x 26 cm (14 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
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Prostitutas, Fernell Franco’s frst major series, is comprised of 16 photographs of sex workers in brothels in the port city of Buenaventura. The complete series was first exhibited in March 1972 in his hometown of Cali at Ciudad Solar, and since then, all 16 works have not been shown together. Franco’s other projects include Amarrados, Interiores, Billares, Demoliciones and Retratos de ciudad.
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Fernell Franco
Colombian | B. 1942 D. 2006One of Latin America’s pre-eminent photographers, Fernell Franco was a leading figure of the Cali Group (named after the city where he lived most of his life). He first encountered the urban underbelly of Colombia as a teenager while working for a photographic studio as a bike messenger. He later pursued photography in journalism and in advertising before turning to his first series Prostitutas in 1970. In 2016, a major retrospective of his work was presented at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City.
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