#peter monaghan

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Peter Monaghan, Circle with Yellow Square, Mixed media

Peter Monaghan - Coloured discs - 80x80cm.

Peter Monaghan, X Paper Cut, 2017, Arylic and gouache on paper on panel

That was necessary because, for example, shots that were used to construct a sequence may have been filmed under varied light conditions or on various types or qualities of film stock. The women who posed for China Girl shots were assisting in the completion of painstaking, workaday tasks. Each of the color-control images became part of one original, master print that a lab worker made from camera negative. The print was then copied – as many times as necessary to meet demand for that film, worldwide – and on each reel that woman’s image went out to potentially thousands of theaters: The woman made her way from anonymous isolation in a particular film lab out into the film world, still in anonymity — because, of course, film-lab workers did not place the image on film-reel leaders for general exhibition.”