Dennis Morris (b.1960)

SID VICIOUS, SWEDEN, 1977. Lambda print, printed later, image size 710 x 500mm, signed and editioned 1/200 by the artist in pencil on mount recto and sheet verso. Framed, frame size 970 x 740mm.

Dennis Morris recounted his 1977 trip to Sweden to photograph the Sex Pistols during a SHOW Studio interview with Nick Knight in 2013. "I think on the second morning, I woke up and thought it was a good day to do some pictures, so I knocked on Sid's door and said 'Let's do some pictures,' and he went, 'Yeah, alright.' That was it really - I drew the curtains and moved away the furniture and used the wall of the room as a studio, as a backdrop. With Sid there was never really any conversation, really, it was just a matter of kind of jive talking. He had his own sort of secret language."

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