Wednesday, May 30, 2012

[untitled: Football Portrait #18]




graphite & putty eraser/30x20cm

(Re)presenting the latest in the series of drawings processed from the source material of photographic portraits as found in a 1970-vintage soccer annual, re-mediated in the familiar, habitual manner, with direct visual reference made to an enlarged, slightly degraded photocopy of the original image as reproduced within the pages of the book.

The portrait subject, Len Walker, was another of those whose playing career extended beyond the mid-70s & the time I developed an interest in the game (the preceding decade is however the time for which I’m most nostalgic), during which the photograph from which , being a legendary name at Aldershot, for whom he made almost 500 appearances.

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