Goodnight Sweetheart
Photograph
2005 (made)
2005 (made)
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As part of her series Postscript, Veronica Bailey photographed an archive of love letters between artists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Each image is titled with a line from the correspondence. Miller wrote this letter to Penrose from her hotel in Athens in the summer of 1938.
Bailey's images emphasise verticality and address the sculptural possibilities of working with paper. In this series, the flexibility of the pages meant that they could be manipulated into more organic, sometimes sensual, shapes.
Bailey's images emphasise verticality and address the sculptural possibilities of working with paper. In this series, the flexibility of the pages meant that they could be manipulated into more organic, sometimes sensual, shapes.
Object details
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| Title | Goodnight Sweetheart (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Diasec durst lambda print on Fuji crystal archive paper |
| Brief description | Photograph by Veronica Bailey, 'Goodnight Sweetheart' from the series 'Postscript', 2005. Editioned durst lambda archival print. Photograph depicts letter written by Lee Miller (Hotel Grand-Bretagne, Athens) to Roland Penrose (21 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London), which was hand delivered on the 1st of July 1938. |
| Physical description | Colour photograph depicting letter written by Lee Miller (Hotel Grand-Bretagne, Athens) to Roland Penrose (21 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London), which was hand delivered on the 1st of July 1938. |
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| Gallery label | As part of her series Postscript, Bailey photographed an archive of love letters between artists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Each image is titled with a line from the correspondence. Miller travelled as a journalist-photographer throughout the 1930s and 1940s, working for Vogue and other publications. She wrote this letter to Penrose from her hotel in Athens in the summer of 1938.(April 2009-April 2010) |
| Credit line | Given by Veronica Bailey |
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| Summary | As part of her series Postscript, Veronica Bailey photographed an archive of love letters between artists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. Each image is titled with a line from the correspondence. Miller wrote this letter to Penrose from her hotel in Athens in the summer of 1938. Bailey's images emphasise verticality and address the sculptural possibilities of working with paper. In this series, the flexibility of the pages meant that they could be manipulated into more organic, sometimes sensual, shapes. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.162-2009 |
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| Record created | March 10, 2009 |
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