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51 Sølve SundSbø NorwegiaN b. 1970 Karen I, 2004 Chromogenic print. 118 x 148 cm (46 1/2 x 58 1/4 in.) Signed, dated and numbered AP 1/3 in ink on the reverse of the fushmount; signed, dated in ink, printed title, date and number AP1 on a Certifcate of Authenticity accompanying the work. This work is AP1 from the sold-out edition of 7 + 3 AP. Estimate £6,000-8,000 $9,000-12,000 €8,300-11,100 †
Leading fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø created this widely published image of supermodel Karen Elson for the November 2004 issue of Numéro magazine. Sundsbø works successfully across a range of platforms from photography and fashion to music and flm, winning an Emmy® award in 2011 for ‘Fourteen Actors Acting’, a video project for the New York Times. He has garnered high praise for his images of the Alexander McQueen archive for the catalogue of Savage Beauty, one of the most popular exhibitions in the history of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is currently on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
literature Numéro, Issue 58, November 2004
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