Lot 11: PHILIPPE CHANCEL

Air Koryo Flight Attendant from DPRK Series
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/5 in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.

73 x 109.2 cm. (28 3/4 x 43 in).

Colour coupler print, Diasec mounted, printed 2006.

2005

Thames & Hudson, North Korea - Philippe Chancel, 2006, p. 30-31

Acquired directly from the artist

Chancel’s photographs do not seek originality through surprise, and they avoid wonderment and fear, substituting in their stead and extravagant form of beauty and fascination to the very point at which we know that there can be no question of either breathing new life into this regime or putting it on trial.
Michel Poivert, North Korea – Philippe Chancel, 2006, p. 7