Jean-Christian BOURCART

Infertile Madonnas, 1992

Cibachrome print

Signed and titled by the photographer on the reverse
Mounted on a black passe-partout

Sheet size : 34,5 x 49 cm

Frame size : 54 x 69 cm

Provenance : Galerie du jour Agnès B., Paris

Frame is included if picked up in Paris but cannot be shipped

Stunning print (sorry for the reflections on the pictures)

Pamphlet of the photographer about this series :

I spent a week wandering around the bordellos in Frankfurt for the magazine Marie Claire. The clubs had three rules: no women, no photographs, no film. There were signs everywhere. The pimps had guns and the women use their high heelsas weapons. A constant stream of men roamed the hallways, from morning till morning.
The women waiting. They knit, they gossip, they stare numbly at the TV screen. There was a floor for Western women, one for Asian women, one for Black women. I couldn’t get too close. In my jacket pocket I had concealed a small camera that was far too noisy. I would pretend to be interested, only to leave immediately, coughing to mask the noise of my camera.