Michael Joseph (1941-) - Pacific Air Forces Wreckage, Vietnam 1964
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Possède plus de dix ans d'expérience dans le domaine de l'art, spécialisé dans la photographie d'après-guerre et l'art contemporain.
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Michael Joseph, tirage C-type en édition limitée Pacific Air Forces Wreckage, Vietnam 1964, imprimé noir et blanc 30 × 40 cm, signé à la main et numéroté 1/20, vendu directement par l’artiste.
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Wreckage - Pacific Air Forces, Vietnam, 1964
Michael Joseph (b. 1941)
Black & white photographic print
Original photograph: South Vietnam, October 1964
Signed and dated by Michael Joseph
Limited Edition: 1/20
A haunting photograph from Michael Joseph’s remarkable Vietnam archive, taken in South Vietnam in October 1964, when the photographer was just 23 years old.
Scattered across an otherwise peaceful landscape lie the shattered remains of a military aircraft. Wings and sections of fuselage have been torn apart and left amongst the vegetation, while the aircraft's broken tail rises dramatically from the wreckage against the mountains beyond.
Look closely at the foreground and an important detail survives amid the destruction: the emblem and words “PACIFIC AIR FORCES” remain visible on the aircraft skin.
The contrast is extraordinary. Joseph gives almost half the composition to the landscape - open ground, trees and an apparently endless chain of mountains - while the wreckage dominates the foreground. What was once an immensely sophisticated piece of military machinery has been reduced to twisted fragments quietly being reclaimed by the countryside.
There are no people in the photograph. That absence makes it all the more powerful. Joseph offers us no immediate explanation of what happened, who flew the aircraft or whether its crew survived. More than sixty years later, the surviving archive has yet to reveal the precise circumstances of the crash.
The photograph was made at a particularly significant moment. In 1964 the American air presence in Southeast Asia was expanding rapidly, and contemporary US Air Force records document increased PACAF deployments following the Gulf of Tonkin crisis that August. (reference Air & Space Forces Magazine)
Joseph had travelled to South Vietnam as a young British photographer, creating a remarkable body of work encompassing soldiers, helicopters, hospitals, civilians and the physical aftermath of conflict. His Vietnam photographs proved formative in the career that subsequently took him into major editorial and advertising photography. (reference Gallery.JustineJoseph.com)
No contemporary publication of this particular image has yet been traced, adding an intriguing archival dimension to the photograph. Unlike another of Joseph's Vietnam images that can be directly connected to his Town magazine material, this wreckage photograph appears, on the evidence currently available, to have remained within his archive.
This contemporary black & white photographic print has been personally signed and inscribed “Vietnam 1964” by Michael Joseph and will additionally be numbered 1/20, making it the first print in an official limited edition of only twenty.
A beautiful yet unsettling image: the insignia of Pacific Air Forces still visible amongst the wreckage, while the Vietnamese landscape stretches serenely beyond.
#MichaelJoseph #Vietnam1964 #VietnamPhotography #PacificAirForces #PACAF #VietnamWar #WarPhotography #AviationPhotography #AircraftWreckage #MilitaryAviation #DocumentaryPhotography #Photojournalism #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LimitedEditionPhotography #PhotographicArchive
À propos du vendeur
My father, Michael Joseph, was a London-based advertising photographer, active from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, and best known for his photographs for the Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet gatefold.
My continuing mission is to share what we affectionately call “the other photographs”: the lesser-known treasures from his extraordinary archive — original darkroom prints, test prints, alternative frames from major shoots, his celebrated group compositions, and more intimate, personal images.
For this special Solo Seller Auction, I am particularly excited to include a selection from Michael’s 1964 Vietnam archive — photographs that have never previously been seen or offered for sale. These remarkable images reveal a very different side of his work, made when he was just 23 years old.
Alongside Michael’s authentic vintage darkroom prints, I am also presenting a new generation of works: striking prints on aluminium and my own handmade cyanotypes, created from his original negatives and transparencies in the Dordogne sunshine. Some are made on vintage photographic paper retrieved from Michael’s own working library, bringing the archive quite literally into a new generation.
Together, the collection brings photographic history and contemporary experimentation side by side — from unique vintage prints made by Michael himself to bold new interpretations of his remarkable archive.
I hope you enjoy discovering these photographs as much as I enjoy bringing them to light — sometimes preserved exactly as Michael made them, sometimes given an entirely new life.
All works are carefully protected and packed with the attention appropriate to collectible photographic artworks.
For US buyers: customs duties and applicable import charges are paid at source and included in the shipping cost. No additional charges should normally be payable on delivery, subject to any change in regulations.
Wreckage - Pacific Air Forces, Vietnam, 1964
Michael Joseph (b. 1941)
Black & white photographic print
Original photograph: South Vietnam, October 1964
Signed and dated by Michael Joseph
Limited Edition: 1/20
A haunting photograph from Michael Joseph’s remarkable Vietnam archive, taken in South Vietnam in October 1964, when the photographer was just 23 years old.
Scattered across an otherwise peaceful landscape lie the shattered remains of a military aircraft. Wings and sections of fuselage have been torn apart and left amongst the vegetation, while the aircraft's broken tail rises dramatically from the wreckage against the mountains beyond.
Look closely at the foreground and an important detail survives amid the destruction: the emblem and words “PACIFIC AIR FORCES” remain visible on the aircraft skin.
The contrast is extraordinary. Joseph gives almost half the composition to the landscape - open ground, trees and an apparently endless chain of mountains - while the wreckage dominates the foreground. What was once an immensely sophisticated piece of military machinery has been reduced to twisted fragments quietly being reclaimed by the countryside.
There are no people in the photograph. That absence makes it all the more powerful. Joseph offers us no immediate explanation of what happened, who flew the aircraft or whether its crew survived. More than sixty years later, the surviving archive has yet to reveal the precise circumstances of the crash.
The photograph was made at a particularly significant moment. In 1964 the American air presence in Southeast Asia was expanding rapidly, and contemporary US Air Force records document increased PACAF deployments following the Gulf of Tonkin crisis that August. (reference Air & Space Forces Magazine)
Joseph had travelled to South Vietnam as a young British photographer, creating a remarkable body of work encompassing soldiers, helicopters, hospitals, civilians and the physical aftermath of conflict. His Vietnam photographs proved formative in the career that subsequently took him into major editorial and advertising photography. (reference Gallery.JustineJoseph.com)
No contemporary publication of this particular image has yet been traced, adding an intriguing archival dimension to the photograph. Unlike another of Joseph's Vietnam images that can be directly connected to his Town magazine material, this wreckage photograph appears, on the evidence currently available, to have remained within his archive.
This contemporary black & white photographic print has been personally signed and inscribed “Vietnam 1964” by Michael Joseph and will additionally be numbered 1/20, making it the first print in an official limited edition of only twenty.
A beautiful yet unsettling image: the insignia of Pacific Air Forces still visible amongst the wreckage, while the Vietnamese landscape stretches serenely beyond.
#MichaelJoseph #Vietnam1964 #VietnamPhotography #PacificAirForces #PACAF #VietnamWar #WarPhotography #AviationPhotography #AircraftWreckage #MilitaryAviation #DocumentaryPhotography #Photojournalism #BlackAndWhitePhotography #LimitedEditionPhotography #PhotographicArchive
À propos du vendeur
My father, Michael Joseph, was a London-based advertising photographer, active from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, and best known for his photographs for the Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet gatefold.
My continuing mission is to share what we affectionately call “the other photographs”: the lesser-known treasures from his extraordinary archive — original darkroom prints, test prints, alternative frames from major shoots, his celebrated group compositions, and more intimate, personal images.
For this special Solo Seller Auction, I am particularly excited to include a selection from Michael’s 1964 Vietnam archive — photographs that have never previously been seen or offered for sale. These remarkable images reveal a very different side of his work, made when he was just 23 years old.
Alongside Michael’s authentic vintage darkroom prints, I am also presenting a new generation of works: striking prints on aluminium and my own handmade cyanotypes, created from his original negatives and transparencies in the Dordogne sunshine. Some are made on vintage photographic paper retrieved from Michael’s own working library, bringing the archive quite literally into a new generation.
Together, the collection brings photographic history and contemporary experimentation side by side — from unique vintage prints made by Michael himself to bold new interpretations of his remarkable archive.
I hope you enjoy discovering these photographs as much as I enjoy bringing them to light — sometimes preserved exactly as Michael made them, sometimes given an entirely new life.
All works are carefully protected and packed with the attention appropriate to collectible photographic artworks.
For US buyers: customs duties and applicable import charges are paid at source and included in the shipping cost. No additional charges should normally be payable on delivery, subject to any change in regulations.
Détails
Date d’impression
1964
Artiste
Michael Joseph (1941-)
Vendu(e) par
En direct de l’artiste
Titre de l'œuvre d'art
Pacific Air Forces Wreckage, Vietnam 1964
Condition
SUP (Superbe)
Technique
C-Print
Hauteur
30 cm
Édition
Limited Edition C-type print, signed by the artist
Largeur
40 cm
Signature
Signé à la main
Genre
Militaire et guerre
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