Lot Essay
Monster is a characteristically unsettling work by Gordon, a conceptual photographer who wilfully pushes to the limit the sensitivities of his audience and their expectation of what a photograph can be. Gordon -- Turner Prize winner in 1996 -- plays disconcertingly with notions of the fluid nature of identity and its potential transmutations. His pictures are permeated with dark, unquantifiable forces that draw on such sources as film noir and 'High Gothic' fiction.
Number 2 from the sold-out edition of 11.
Number 2 from the sold-out edition of 11.