J.H. Engström - Photographs London Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    GunGallery, Stockholm

  • Literature

    Steidl/GUN, JH Engström, CDG/JHE, 2008, p. 2

  • Catalogue Essay

    To most people an airport used to represent a place of optimism. An open place, oozing with expectations and encounters. Recent world events have changed all that. Today an airport is a completely different experience. Armed police officers, restrictions and safety regulations only help to increase our feelings of insecurity. Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport has always been a special place for JH Engström. At the age of ten he moved to Paris with his parents. Charles de Gaulle was his first contact with the world outside his native Sweden. The move created a very intense relationship to the city of Paris, but also to the Charles de Gaulle and airports in general. For this project he spent three weeks isolated in an airport hotel, photographing in and between the terminals.The airport became a place to observe identities and the history of relations. With fiction, poetry and mystery he observes it. Raising questions of social, urban and architectural dimensions.
    Steidl/GUN, JH Engström, CDG/JHE, 2008

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CDG/JHE #2

2006
Colour coupler print, printed 2008 and flush-mounted.
60 x 77.8 cm. (23 5/8 x 30 5/8 in).
Signed and titled in ink on a label affixed to the reverse of the frame. Number 5 from an edition of 5 plus 2 artist’s proofs.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Photographs

15 Oct 2009
London