Original print of Coil / P Christopherson & J Balance

	£		91
	$		120

One last trawl through the archives before Christmas has turned up the following -

A beautiful, but rather odd, vintage silver gelatine print of the band Coil (at this point comprising Peter Christopherson and John Balance).

It was taken in October 1988, in Peter's house in Chiswick, by well known editorial portrait photographer Derek Ridgers. It was commissioned by the British music magazine New Musical Express, but the article was canned as being too strange and the photograph never appeared.

This is a second version of the print that was sold on Ebay last month.

It would make an excellent Christmas present for any Coil fan. This particular image has never been seen publicly anywhere before and we believe this is the only print made from this image. The recipient can certainly rest assured that they will currently be the only Coil fan in the world to own a copy.

Limited editions of Derek Ridgers portraits usually sell for many hundreds of pounds (and occasionally a good deal more than that, on websites such as Britart.com). He has exhibited world-wide and extensively in this country including at the Barbican and The National Portrait Gallery, and has also had one man shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Photographers Gallery.

This photograph is signed in pencil by the photographer on the back, alongside a couple of his own stamps.

The condition of the print is perfect with no creases, folds or discolouration. There is however a small amount of retouching on the print. The illustration shown is a flat bed scan of the actual print being offered. The total print size is 30.5cm by 22cm, the image size is 27.8cm x 19.3cm.

Almost all Derek Ridgers' black and white photographs currently for sale on eBay were printed by himself, in his own darkroom on double weight, fibre based paper, and they were always archivally processed (air dried and cold flattened) to museum standards, regardless of end use. The smaller of these prints (12x10 inches or less) were almost all printed at around the time of the original session. They were either duplicates of those supplied to the magazines or record companies that commissioned them, or they were simply edited out of the original selection that was supplied. I describe all these prints as "vintage". Most of the larger prints were made, but not necessarily at the time of the shoot, for my father's portfolio or for various exhibitions. Having said that, after '92/'93 my father seldom printed any smaller than 12x16 inches anyway - unless that size was specifically requested.

From February 2007 my father now plans to start selling a small number of signed, limited edition prints from his website. This print is very unlikely to be one of them. And none of them will be vintage prints, lith prints or one-off prints, printed by the photographer himself. So if you want this print now, at a price decided by Ebayers, this is your chance.

If you look at my feedback you'll see that we now have several repeat purchasers, a fact that may best speak for itself.

See Derek Ridgers website here -

www.DerekRidgers.com

See also review on -

http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa071700c.htm

Please note - the copyright of this photograph is NOT being sold and remains with the photographer.

Thank you for viewing. Please view the other photographs as well.

I accept postal orders or cheques from within the UK or Paypal from anywhere in the world.

Winning bidder pays shipping, the cost of which obviously vary depending on destination.

If you have questions about the print/s please e-mail me.