Raymond HAINS (1926-2005) - Lot 24

Raymond HAINS (1926-2005) La Main multipliée par un jeu de miroirs, 1947 Hypnagogic photographs, in a single frame 12.5 x 17 cm Provenance: - Former Sam Szafran collection (donated by Raymond Hains in 1950) Raymond Hains began taking photographs in the 1940s. He creates his hypnagogic photographs using prisms, mirrors and fluted glass. These frames are placed in front of the lens to achieve the desired effect, distorting the images. Graphic games based on the simplest subjects show them in a new way, no longer as a reproduction of reality but as that of a "new reality", abstracting from the subject. Photography thus becomes a purely graphic invention, whose troubled patterns invite us to dream.