PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French)
Paul Cadmus, 1937

SOLD

Silver print
inscribed ‘Paul Cadmus by Jared French, 1937’ & stamped ‘collection of Paul Cadmus’ (verso)
9cm × 12cm (sheet size), (29cm × 27cm framed)

In 1937, the painters Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret French began to experiment with a camera during summers on Fire Island, in Provincetown, and in 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 in the afternoon and take photographs when the light was the 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.