Majo Schumans
Nearby, Far Away, 1973
Four silver gelatin prints mounted within a sheet of cream mountboard. Each photograph measures 180 x 238 mm. The two left images are captioned ‘nearby’, in the top the artist is pictured wearing glasses, in the bottom an overgrown garden wall appears in perfect focus. The two right images are captioned ‘far away’, the top features the artist without glasses in soft focus, the bottom images features the same landscape photograph as on the left, in soft focus (as if suggesting this is the artists’ view, slightly out of focus as she hasn’t got the glasses on). Schumans is wearing the same fur coat and glasses as is seen in another photograph from the same year of herself Raúl Marroquín, and the Ehrenbergs and other ‘dressed up members of the BGP community’, when at Beau Geste Press in Devon in late 1973. On the verso of each photograph is a blue printed rubber stamp that reads ‘poetry / photography’.
“He proposed to introduce me coming week-end to his parents…” 27 august 1967, undated (exhibited at Agora Studios in 1975)
313 x 227 mm. Mixed-media collage with colour post card and black ink on white paper stock. Title handwritten by the artist, unsigned.
“I thought about our dream of the future…” 7 september 1962, undated (exhibited at Agora Studios in 1975)
313 x 227 mm. Mixed-media collage with colour post card and black ink on white paper stock. Title handwritten by the artist, unsigned.
“He sang:,, Come on let’s twist again…” 3 june 1966, undated (exhibited at Agora Studios in 1975)
313 x 227 mm. Mixed-media collage with colour post card and black ink on white paper stock, taped to card mount. Title handwritten by the artist, unsigned.
“One afternoon his family took us salng on the Bodenlake…” 14 may 1968, undated (exhibited at Agora Studios in 1975)
313 x 227 mm. Mixed-media collage with colour post card and black ink on white paper stock. Title handwritten by the artist, unsigned.
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