BRIAN GRIFFIN AUCTION OF WORKS (1973–2013) 26th November 2014
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BRIAN GRIFFIN AUCTION OF WORKS (1973–2013) 26th November 2014 Kingsway Hall Hotel 66 Great Queen Street WC2B 5BX London, United Kingdom Doors open: 6.30pm Auction begins: 7.00pm There will be no reserve prices, just the hammer price plus VAT.
Photographs Front cover: Lot 6 (Page 11) This spread: Lot 17 (Page 16) Brian Griffin Flat 22 Canada Wharf 255 Rotherhithe Street, London SE16 5ES. +44 (0)7836 687 166 brian@briangriffin.co.uk Catalogue by Heat Design www.heatdesign.com
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Brian Griffin is a photographer that has had a profound effect on photography in the last 30 years. His style and technique is timeless, creating works of art that leave the viewer mesmerised.
Politicians, designers, singers, rugby players — they all undergo a magical metamorphosis in front of Brian Griffin’s camera. SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Lot 89 Containers 2, Fos-sur-Mer France 2011. See page 47
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Lot 1 “Googly”, Henley Regatta, Henley – On – Thames, England 1973. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Signed on reverse. Archival Pigment Print. Framed.
Lot 2 Llandudno, Wales 1973. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 3 Yorkshire, England 1973. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 4 Great Orme, Llandudno, Wales 1973. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 5 Brian Griffin, Copyright 1978. First Edition. Condition: As new. Self Published. Signed. Copyright comprises of a number of photographs that had been produced for clients such as Management Today or as private projects including one made during a session for the album cover of Devo’s Be Stiff. Griffin approached Barney Bubbles in 1978 after admiring a series of illustrations of Johnny Moped in the NME, and asked him to interpret a selection of photographs with a series of deceptively simple diagrams using only lines and circles.
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Lot 6 Memorial, Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow 1974. 50.8 x 40.7 cms Silver Gelatin print. Edition number 3/10. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
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Lot 7 Museum Of Economic Achievements, Moscow 1974. 50.8 x 40.7 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 3/10. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
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Lot 8 Dennis Head, Managing Director of Rolls Royce Aerospace, London 1976. 40.6 x 30.5 cms Archival Pigment Print. Certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 9 The End of Jensen Motors, London 1975. Silver Gelatin Print. 50.8 x 40.7 cms Edition number 3/10. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
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Lot 10 Wandsworth Roundabout, London 1977. 50.8 x 40.7 cms Silver Gelatin print. Edition number 3/10. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
Lot 11 Martin, Wandsworth London 1976. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
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Lot 12 Martin, Wandsworth Kitchen, London 1976. 25.4 x 20.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
Lot 13 Untitled, Bedsit Wandsworth London 1977. 45.3 x 30.4 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/21. Framed.
Lot 15 Man at Door, Southbank London 1976. 45.3 x 30.4 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/21. Signed and titled on the reverse. Framed.
Lot 14 Brian Griffin Copyright 1978. Poster. 60 x 42 cms Designed by Barney Bubbles. Certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 16 Power. British Management in Focus, 1981. First Edition, Hardback. Publisher, Travelling Light. Designed by Barney Bubbles. Condition: As New. Signed. During the 1970s, I photographed a series of portraits for the magazine, Management Today. The brief was to portray some of the most important individuals in the British corporate world but which have since been described as, ‘witty and slightly surreal images that subverted the notions of men in grey suits and demystified the corporate world’. In 1981, these images along with others of politicians, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, trade unionists, educators and representatives in the media were published in the book, Power: British Management in Focus.
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Lot 17 Rush Hour, London Bridge 1974. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 18 London Stock Exchange 1974. 40.64 x 30.48 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 19 Jack Harwell, Managing director of Jack Harwell Data Processing, London 1975. 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed. Lot 20 Stanley Prince, General Manager, Stylewear. Birkenhead, Liverpool 1979. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 21 Chris Law, Accountant and Sailor, London 1976. 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 22 Sir Brandon Rhys Williams MP, London 1976. 40.64 x 30.48 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 23 Roland Bertodo, Marketing Director, Dexion Ltd; Swindon England 1976. 40.64 x 30.48 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 24 Alan Brown, Head of Training Services Division, Manpower Services Commission, London 1980. 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 25 Tractor Mechanics, England 1975. 40.6 x 30.5 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 26 George Cooper, Managing Director of Thames Television, London 1976. 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 27 Manolo Blahnik, Shoe Designer, Chelsea London 1979. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print Edition number 3/10. Signed and titled on reverse. Framed.
Lot 28 Marshall McCluhan, Toronto Canada 1979. 40.7 x 50.8 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 29 Lloyds Building, City of London 1980. 30.7 x 30.7 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 30 Siouxsie, London 1983 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print Edition number 5/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 31 Joe Jackson “Look Sharp”, Southbank London 1979. 45.3 x 30.4 cms. Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/21. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 32 Poster for the exhibition “Rock ‘n’ Roll And The Office” at the Contrast Gallery, London 1981. 51 x 76 cms Artist: Barney Bubbles. Framed.
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Lot 33 “A Broken Frame�, Cambridgeshire, England 1982. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Edition number 2/20. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 34 “Y” (Paint Your Windows White), Newspaper 1983. Designed by Barney Bubbles. London: Self Published. First edition. The first and only realised issue of a planned series of publications, with photographs by Griffin and design and typography by Barney Bubbles. Its title is taken from a series of government issued instructions on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. Bubbles took his life on November 14 1983; the same day American nucleartipped cruise missiles were flown to the Royal Air Force Station at Greenham Common, which was used by the United States Army Air Forces during the Cold War. Bubbles reputation has grown steadily since his death, Richard Hollis refererred to him as the most original talent to emerge from Britain’s punk scene, adding that he ‘was unique in his ability to find imagery for a verbal idea. His designs did not depend on obvious aesthetic effects nor did they borrow from fine art. 34
Lot 35 Brouncker Road, Acton London 1980. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Signed on reverse. Frame and print first exhibited at the Savile Club London in 1983.
Lot 37 Radiation, London 1983. 17.3 x 17.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with a certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 36 Hatton Cross Number 4, London 1983. 16.7 x 16.7 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with a certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 38 Hatton Cross Number 6, London 1983. 35.6 x 35.6 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Frame and print first exhibited at the Savile Club London 1983. Signed on reverse.
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Lot 39 Stress, London 1984. 17.3 x 17.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 41 Ray Robertson, Job Evaluation Manager, Hewlett – Packard Ltd., Wokingham England 1984. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 40 Delivery of VW Golf, Kent England 1975. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 42 Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven, Prime Minister. 10 Downing Street London 1986. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 43 Portraits, 1987. Second edition. Introduction by Francois Hebel. Designed by The Partners. Self Published. Signed.
Lot 44 Microphones, Sound Laboratory, Germany 1988. 111.76 x 111.76 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 45 Testing Ground, JCB Excavators Ltd, Uttoxeter England 1987. 50.8 x 60.96 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 47 Scottish Businessmen, Scotland 1986. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 46 Office Dance, Stockley Park England 1986. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 48 Building Broadgate, 1987 Brochure. 42 x 60 cms Designed by Davenport Associates.
Lot 49 Steel Erector on plinth, Broadgate, City of London 1987. (Series of 6 works ) 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Prints. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 50 Inspection, Broadgate City of London 1986. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 51a The Big Tie, Broadgate City of London 1987. (Series of 13 works) 30.48 x 40.64 cms Archival Pigment Prints. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 52 Big Tie Over Liverpool Street Station, Broadgate City of London 1987. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 3/10 Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 53 Sewage Pipelayer, Broadgate, City of London 1986. 35.6 x 35.6 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 54 Riveter, Broadgate City of London 1986. 35.6 x 35.6 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 7/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 55 Carpenter, Broadgate City of London 1986. 35.6 x 35.6 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 3/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 56 “Big Bang�, Broadgate City of London 1986. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 57 Sliced Bread. Rotherhithe London 1983. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 7/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 58 Work. London: Black Pudding Publishing [self-published], 1988. First Edition. 73 black-and-white photographs, design by Davenport Associates. Black endpapers. Black cloth-covered boards, spine lettered in white and gilt, upper side stamped in gilt. White dust-jacket illustrated with black-and-white photograph, text in black and gold. Complete as issued with the 10� vinyl record in white sleeve illustrated with black-and-white photograph, printed in black and gold. Lot 59 Bureaucracy, London 1987. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 60 Alain Chevalier, Chairman of Moet Chandon, Epernay France 1987. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 62 Meeting the Hewlett Packard representative, Ferranti, Edinburgh Scotland 1985 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Suppled with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 61 Howerd Dawson, Managing Director, Artix, Peterlee England 1988. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 63 David Fraser, Chief Executive of United Scientific Group Ltd. London England 1988. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 64 Ian Vernon, Marketing Manager, Knowledge Engineering Group ICL, Manchester England 1987. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 65 Brian Eno, Woodbridge, Suffolk England 1990. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
Lot 66 Damien Hirst, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England 2003. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 5/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 67 Dentist, University Hospital, Tublingen Germany 1988. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 68 Doctor Stein of Blaupunkt and Mr Meyer of Hewlett Packard, Blaupunkt, Hildersheim Germany 1988. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 69 “Manager 1”, London 1990 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 71 “Manager 3”, London 1990. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 70 “Manager 2”, London 1990. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 72 Phil Richards, Twin Valley Homes, Blackburn England 2003. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 74 Rowan Gilpin, Channel Manager, Ceridian Centrefile, Manchester England 2003. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 73 Richard Foulger & Clive Davison, Environmental Health Officers, London Borough of Bromley, Bromley England 2003. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 75 Keith Anderson Technician and Lawrence Ward distribution Manager, EDF Energy, Gatwick Airport, England 2003. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 76 Spiral Clouds, Nesjavellir Geothermal Plant, Iceland. From the series “The Water People�, Iceland 2006. 101.6 x 101.6 cms Archival Pigment Print. Edition number 2/5. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 77 Hilda Runa Hauksdottir, Mother of the musician Bjork, Reykjavik. From the series “The Water People�, Iceland 2006. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Silver Gelatin Print. Edition number 3/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 78 Leifur with Steinunn, Holar Farm, Hornfjordur Iceland 2007. 45.3 x 45.3 cms Archival Pigment Print. Edition number 4/10. Signed on reverse. Framed.
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Lot 79 Liam, Steel Fixer, St. Pancras Chambers, St. Pancras London 2005. 111.76 x 111.76 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 80 Augvidas Baradinskas, General Labourer, Channel Tunnell Rail Link, St. Pancras London 2006, 111.76 x 111.76 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 81 Surjit Singh, Bricklayer, St. Pancras London 2006. 111.76 x 111.76 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 82 Vic Porter, Foreman Scaffolder, Channel Tunnell Rail Link, St. Pancras London 2006. 111.76 x 111.76 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 83 Ray Lippman,Inventor at Delphi, Flint Michigan USA 2009. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 85 Simon Clegg, Chief Executive of Ipswich Town Football club & David Lukes, Head of Sport Competition for Locog, Wembley Stadium 2010. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 84 Nick Tomlinson, Financial Director UAW 651, Flint Michigan USA 2009. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 86 Denise Lewis & Jonathan Edwards, Ambassadors for the London Olympics, Canary Wharf London 2010. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 87 Foundry Warehouse Worker, Lye England 2010. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with a certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 88 Containers 1, Fos-sur-Mer, France 2011. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 89 Containers 2, Fos-sur-Mer France 2011. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 90 Mark Nock & Adam Tunstall, Labourers, Carillion, Birmingham England 2012. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 91 Greg McMaster, Nexus, Birmingham England 2012. 59.4 x 84.1 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 92 Terry Perkins, Birmingham England 2012. 59.4 x 84.1 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 93 Capita Symonds, New Library of Birmingham, Birmingham England 2012. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 94 Peter Hodge & Kane Newell, Horbury, New Library of Birmingham, Birmingham England 2012. 59.4 x 84.1 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 95 Francesco Veenstra, Architect at Mecanoo, New Library of Birmingham, Birmingham England 2012. 59.4 x 84.1 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 96 Peta Murphy Burke, Arts Council, New Library of Birmingham, Birmingham England 2012. 40.62 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 97 Keith Jeffrey, CEO of Quad, Derby England 2012. 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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Lot 98 Honourable Hugh Gibson, Royal Crown Derby, Derby England 2012 111.76 x 142.24 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
Lot 99 Gil Borges, Car Salesman, Peso du Regua Portugal 2013. 40.64 x 50.8 cms Archival Pigment Print. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Framed.
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ABOUT Brian Griffin
Brian Griffin is one of the world’s leading photographers, with a unique vision that has taken him on a visual odyssey. Born in Birmingham on the 13th April 1948 though lived in the Black Country before studying photography at Manchester Polytechnic. (1969 – 72.) Since 1972 has lived in London working as a freelance photographer getting his first commission for Management Today in November 1972. He was first exhibited in the “Young British Photographers” in 1975 at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. He received the “Freedom of the city of Arles, France” in 1987. Published the book “Work” in 1988 with a one-man show at the National Portrait Gallery. Work was later awarded the prize of Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991. In 1989 the Guardian newspaper named him “The Photographer Of The Decade”. The same year, “Life” magazine used Griffin’s photograph “A Broken Frame” as the cover to its special supplement “The Greatest Photographs Of The 80’s”. From 1991 until 2002 he worked as a film director making TV Commercials, Music Videos and Short Films. In 2003 he returned to photography, working on Birmingham’s bid to become the European Capital City Of Culture. This was followed by a retrospective at the Art Museum Reykjavik Iceland in 2005. He then produced a book and exhibition for the Royal opening of St. Pancras Station and High Speed 1 in 2007. Since 2009, he has been the patron of the Format Festival of Photography in Derby.
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In 2009 he launched the London Olympics’ photography project “Road To 2012” at the National Portrait Gallery with Lord Sebastian Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes. In 2010 he held a major retrospective of his portraiture “Face to Face” in Birmingham. He received the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in 2013 in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography. Recently he has been commissioned to produce exhibitions for “Marseille Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture” and for “Reference Works” a major photography project to celebrate the building and opening of the New Birmingham Library. This was followed by a retrospective exhibition of his corporate photography in Bologna Italy during October 2013. On March 3rd 2014, he received an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University for his lifetime contribution to the City of Birmingham.
He is the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last three decades because Brian Griffin is driven like no-one else. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Brian Griffin by Helen Mirren
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Manchester Polytechnic, 1971 London Museum, 1979 Brian Griffin, by Xavier Guardans, 1984 Manchester Polytechnic, 1972
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London Museum, 1979 Rotherithe Studio, 1980 Moscow, 1974 Manchester with Robert Westwood, 1969 Rotherithe Studio, 1981 Derby Museum, by Ashley Franklin, 2013 Paris studio, with Harry Dean Stanton, 1989 Rotherithe Studio, 1989
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Rotherithe Studio, 1984
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THANK YOU LOVE BRIAN. Rotherithe Studio, Winter 1986