NJG Studio

20 “Strictly Limited Edition” portfolios signed and numbered by Jeannette Montgomery Barron, containing 9 archival pigment prints, printed on Hahnemühle Photorag Baryta paper. Encased in a blood orange canvas clam shell portfolio with ebony de-bossed foiled titles, complete with a front mounted extended cobalt blue opening chord. ‘CONTACT’ was shot Thursday 31st October, Halloween 1985 in Cindy Sherman’s studio, New York City by Jeannette Montgomery Barron. What characterises these portraits is a kind of transparency, a truth of sorts. Photographed without the fanfare of the assorted props, makeup or wigs, Cindy is her own subject. Here Jeannette captures a different yet similar Cindy “gaze” an awareness that looks inward not out.

This collection of photographs is part of a remarkable compendium of portraits shot by Jeannette of renowned personalities from arguably the most exciting era of New York City underground culture—the 1980s—when the young and indomitable flocked downtown in search of places to work and live among like-minded collaborators. These musicians, filmmakers, painters, writers, fashion designers, publishers, actors, models, and photographers played together, worked together, made their own rules and changed our culture, as we know it, forever.

PLEASE NOTE PORTFOLIOS WILL SHIP FROM W/C 13th SEPTEMBER 2021, however shipping remains subject to change and delays may occur should further local Covid 19 measures be put in place.

AS OF 1ST JULY 2021 OWING TO NEW EU RULES, LOCAL VAT RATES WILL BE APPLIED AT CHECKOUT FOR ALL ORDERS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION. Orders can take up to 48 – 72 hours to process during busy periods. The books are non refundable. Additional customs fees are the responsibility of the buyer.