PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French)
John B, c.1940s

£4,500

Silver bromide print
Titled ‘John B’ (verso)
17 × 12 cm (image size), 18 × 13 cm (sheet size)
36 × 29 cm (framed)

In 1937, the painters, Paul Cadmus, Jared French and Margaret French began to experiment with a camera during summers on Fire Island, Provincetown and New York. They studied themselves and their friends over a period of 20 years. As Cadmus years later recounted, 'After we'd been working most of the day, we'd go out late afternoons and take photographs when the light was best. They were just playthings. We would hand out these little photographs when we went to dinner parties, like playing cards' (Jerry Rosco, Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography, p. 78). Photographs by PaJaMa are rare as they were printed and gifted sparingly.