Start price: € 2,400

Estimate: € 4,000–5,000

Start price: RMB 18,000

Estimate: RMB 30,000–38,000

Size: 35.5 x 54.5 cm

Vintage silver print on single-weight glossy paper, rare large-format exhibition print, in good condition. Pentax inventory number "8741-50-102" on the reverse. LITERATURE Sam Haskins, Cowboy Kate & Other Stories, Toronto 1964. PROVENANCE Pentax Gallery, Tokyo.

Sam Haskins, who worked in London since 1968, is a pioneer of nude photography in the sixties. He favoured photographing girls who did not come from professional modelling circles and who confidently faced his camera in natural, even moving poses. His visual aesthetic, in which he deliberately used blurring and coarse grain, was ground-breaking, for example for Jeanloup Sieff or David Bailey. His photo books had a lasting influence, as "Cowboy Kate" (1964), which sold over a million copies. Its venturous montages of various motifs, such as nudes and images of isolated emblems of Wild West romanticism, creating a visual language that corresponded to the new permissiveness of the Sixties. The present print comes from the Pentax Gallery in Tokyo. Haskins had a long relationship with the Pentax camera company, their gallery in Tokyo organized several of his exhibitions.

早期明胶银盐照片，单重光面纸，罕见的大幅展览照片，状况良好。背面有宾得库存编号“8741-50-102”。 文献：Sam Haskins，《Cowboy Kate & Other Stories》，多伦多，1964年。 来源：宾得画廊，东京。 萨姆·哈斯金斯自1968年以来在伦敦工作，是六十年代裸体摄影的先驱。他喜欢拍摄那些不来自专业模特圈子的女孩，这些女孩自信地面对他的镜头，姿态自然，甚至是动态的。他的视觉美学是开创性的，例如他故意使用模糊和粗颗粒，这对让卢·谢夫（Jeanloup Sieff）或大卫·贝利（David Bailey）来说都是突破性的。他的摄影书籍有着持久的影响力，例如《Cowboy Kate》（1964年），销售超过一百万册。其大胆的各种主题的蒙太奇，如裸体和孤立的西部浪漫主义象征图像，创造了一种与六十年代新宽容性相对应的视觉语言。这张照片来自东京的宾得画廊。哈斯金斯与宾得相机公司有着长期的合作关系，他们在东京的画廊组织了他的几次展览。