WILLEM DIEPRAAM VINTAGE SILVER-GELATIN PRINT: "LOMO DE CORVINA, PANAMERICA SUR, LIMA, PERU, 1990 by Diepraam, Willem - 1990

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Willem Diepraam Studios, 1990. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Willem Diepraam Studios, 1990. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 1 pages. Rare Willem Diepraam collectible piece. The vintage silver-gelatin print of the great Willem Diepraam image. Limited Edition of 15 signed, titled, and dated copies. Print size is 11 X 20 inches. It is archivally framed in white matte stock paper and mounted on solid dark wood. Full frame size is 29 X 23 inches. The back is mounted in Plexiglas in order to show the signature on verso. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Willem Diepraam's "Lomo De Corvina, Panamerica Sur, Lima, Peru, 1990". His iconic photograph of a hapless boy being chased by a pack of wild dogs. The craggy landscape is streaked with long, undulating gray lines, as if by design, giving the image an almost formal, abstract character. It looms over the tiny subjects and appears to envelop them, the Universal and the Particular merging. The photograph is simply named after the place where the horrific incident actually took place, was witnessed, and captured permanently on film by Willem Diepraam. He will not tell us if the dogs caught up with the boy and killed him - by, for example, showing a "what-happened-next" image - because he does not need to. The image already tells us that the dogs eviscerated the boy; the image before us forecloses the possibility of survival. By NOT going there, Diepraam's chase image is rendered even more powerful. The image is an aesthetic triumph as well as an evocation of sheer, unmitigated horror. His most celebrated image, it is beautifully reproduced as a doublespread in the monograph, "Willem Diepraam" (2001). An absolute "must-have" print for Willem Diepraam collectors. <b><i> This vintage print is one of the Limited Edition of 15 copies. It is very boldly and beautifully signed, titled, and dated in black ink-pen on verso by the photographer: "Willem Diepraam LOMO DE CORVINA, PANAMERICA SUR, LIMA, PERU, 1990" . This vintage print is a masterpiece. As far as we know, this is the only print available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The print was obtained from Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, the photographer's American gallery. A rare signed vintage print thus. </b></i> 1 original vintage print. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER WILLEM DIEPRAAM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).