JEANLOUP SIEFF 1933-2000 - Lot 8

JEANLOUP SIEFF 1933-2000 Tutu, Opéra de Paris, 1988. Photograph. Posterior silver print, stamped by the author and captioned in pencil on the back. Image: 29.7 x 19.7 cm; sheet: 39.6 x 29.6 cm "There are no instructions, no tricks, no rules, other than to learn how to use a relatively simple instrument so as to be able, thanks to it, to play your own little music that will owe nothing to that of your neighbor and will be unique because sincere and personal. The basic technique can be learned in a few hours, but practice will take a lifetime, refining with experience, improving through failure, to reach the simplicity that will be the language mastered. But this language will never be totally mastered, because there will always be that wonderful, moving and rare thing that is chance, the fragile 'privileged moment' that only the reflex can grasp, but this reflex of the mind and heart that is called vision." Jeanloup Sieff