HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Mid-Night Jump, 1975 [unique vintage photos]

HREINN FRIDFINNSSON, Mid-Night Jump, 1975
each ca A6
3 analogue photos, unique
condition: excellent, although toned
Collection K. van Gelder/T.K. Johansen, Amsterdam
Copyright photos: Thora K. Johansen
p.o.r.
inv.HF 000-pr

These pictures were taken by Thora Johansen during a stay with friends in a villa in Canneto Pavese at Christmas holidays in 1974. At New Year’s Eve Hreinn asked Thora to make a photo of a jump just before midnight, one on the stroke of twelve ‘o clock and one after the stroke. It was not Hreinn’s intention to make an edition of that. It had to remain ephemeral and transient, almost like a story and continue to live on as a story.
In 2018 the three A6 photos were put on the website of Galerie van Gelder for the first time ever, with click-on HRes files. All these years they were glued-in in a family photo book of Thora K. Johansen who took the pictures, and as such only privately accessible between 1975 and 2018.

On behalf of his solo exhibition at (((R))) Rozenstraat in Amsterdam in 2020 an edition was made from the original vintage prints from 1975 shown above. In 2019 digital images were taken from the website for making an edition, neither with the consent of the photographer, nor of Galerie van Gelder. For the production of this edition the reddish tone in the vintage photos was replaced by a much more blueish one. The images have been cropped, mainly at the bottom part of the photos, apparently to bring the proportions back to the double A4 standard size or perhaps for esthetic reasons.

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