Albert Watson
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'Mike Tyson, Catskills, New York', 1986
Signed Albert Watson and numbered 4/25 on label verso. Pigment print, image 61 x 48 cm. Including frame 79 x 64 cm.
Provenance
Tres Hombres Art, Halmstad.
Literature
James Crump, "Albert Watson", 2007, illustrated on full-page p. 41.
More information
Albert Watson was commissioned to photograph Mike Tyson for Rolling Stone just before the height of the boxer's fame. According to Watson, 'Tyson was up and coming in 1986. Everybody was saying that he was going to be the next big thing and had always wanted to do a silhouette of a boxer or the back of a boxer's head. My father was a professional boxer and he used to say, "the strength of a boxer is in his neck". That adage always stuck with me through life'. This powerful image of Tyson's solid neck expresses this saying in the most simple and direct visual terms.
Excerpt James Crump, "Albert Watson", 2007, p. 40.