| Reference Number | 2016.1/D/3 |
| Level | File |
| Extent | 13 items |
| Title | Photographs of 'Mirror Film' |
| Date | 1971; 1984 |
| Description | Photographs of the film work 'Mirror Film' (1971). The images show various frames from the six minute film in which the silvering of a mirror is scraped away, gradually effacing the image of the artist holding a cine camera. Includes the following: black and white images of the film cut from a contact sheet [/1-6]; four black and white photographs of different frames from the film, one marked 'David Dye' in pencil on the reverse [/7-10]; and a colour photograph of the work, possibly taken from a screening of the film [/11]. Accompanied by a black and white photograph of six sequential 'Mirror Film' frames mounted on a piece of paper. Annotated on the reverse, 'David Dye. Mirror Film 1971' in an unidentified hand [/12]. The image featured in the exhibition catalogue for '1965-1972 – when attitudes became form' at Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge in 1984. The file also includes a photographic copy of the catalogue text which accompanied the image (/13). |
| Notes | According to Dye's website (http://daviddye.co.uk), the film was originally shown at Dye's one man show at the ICA, London in 1972. However, in an interview with Anne Seymour - featured in the exhibition catalogue for 'The New Art', Hayward Gallery, London in 1972 [p.83] - Dye claims that the work was first shown at an evening of film at the Lisson Gallery, London in September 1971. |
| Related Material | See 2016.1/E/12 for negatives and colour positives of 'Mirror Film'. |