Michael Putland
Triptychs 13 April to 11 June 2011 Snap Galleries, 8 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1Y 6NH. Telephone 0207 493 1152 e: info@snapgalleries.com w: www.snapgalleries.com
Triptychs For this new exhibition, Michael Putland presents a collection of work from his extensive 1970s and 80‘s photographic archives in a stunning new format, combining sets of three images as triptychs, bringing together three individual frames as a single artwork.
have a dynamism and strong sense of animation. The exhibition also features triptychs of Keith Richards, John Lennon, David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits, Bob Marley, Steven Stills, Tim Buckley, Madonna and Prince among others.
As Michael Putland explains “The inspiration for the project actually came from the Renaissance. Seeing many Renaissance originals in museums and churches over the years, it struck me that there could be a contemporary twist to this age old method of image presentation, and I started to explore images within my archive to see whether any would be suitable for combining as triptychs. The deeper I dug, the more I came up with, and I’m delighted with the results. In each triptych, my guiding principle was that the three images should work together as a coherent whole - there had to be an anchor image in the centre, and then a natural image for the left and one which sat naturally to the right.“
Each limited edition triptych is available to purchase in a choice of sizes. The smallest has a 60 x 30cm (24 x 12 inch) image size. All the size options and prices are available to view now on our website (in the exhibitions section), including some additional images that space prevented us from including in the catalogue. Whilst prices are shown for unframed work online, we would be delighted to organise framing for your purchases. Visitors to the gallery will be able to see examples in each of the available sizes, and in two different framing techniques: a regular black frame with mount and a frameless perspex mount with a special subframe on the reverse that appears to float off the wall.
His first triptych featured Mick Jagger, and the resultant artwork fizzes with life: three portraits of Mick Jagger in conversation which
Everything is for sale, and we are taking orders now for Michael’s triptychs.
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Mick Jagger
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Background on Michael Putland. Passionate about music from a young age, Michael’s career in the music industry began as he thought it was about to end. In the process of closing down his studio (because he simply couldn't afford it) he was literally saved by the bell. The bell on his telephone. The very last call prior to shutting the doors in 1971 was an assignment to photograph Mick Jagger. Then it really started. Michael didn't actually have a day off in the seventies. At least that's how it seemed to him at the time. And looking back, there's just no other way he could have assembled a photographic archive of such immense breadth and depth. Thirty years later he had accumulated a vast archive of pretty much everyone who cut a record or played a gig. His A to Z goes from Abba to Zappa and would wrap around a small village. Michael has a very intimate and personal style of portraiture and combined this with a flair for live work. He is probably best known for his images of The Rolling Stones from their 1973 tour, which have been published in a lavish limited edition book “Pleased to Meet You”, but he has a rich seam of material outside his Stones archive. Snap Galleries, 8 Piccadilly Arcade, London SW1Y 6NH. Telephone 0207 493 1152 e: info@snapgalleries.com w: www.snapgalleries.com
Keith Richards
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David Bowie
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Marc Bolan
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Tom Waits
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Stephen Stills
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
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Jimmy Page
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Bruce Springsteen
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Tim Buckley
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Bob Marley
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Prince
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Madonna
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