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Battiss closeup

Item date(s): Oct 1972

Walter Whall Battiss  (1906-1982) - (photographs of)
'Tony'  - (photographer)


Pages: 15pp
Size: 265mm
Binding: Green cardboard box
Technique: Photography
Inscription: Signed by the artist. W. B.
Edition: Unique


Place publication: (Pretoria RSA)
Publisher: The artist

Additional notes:
Close photographs: Labelled on the reverse: Eye. W.B. Tony Oct 1972; Stomach pressed in; Knee; Armpit x 2; Sole of foot; Forearm. Not labelled: toes; navel; tongue; ear; head hair, arm hair, bum etc. Housed in a green Ilfordbox with a green portrait of Battiss's face laminated to the top.

'Tony' may be the photographer.

In the style of John Coplans' "Self Portrait".

Ref: GB/30237



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