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SUMMARY:hilde-smith-fabrics-for-bodymap-is-a-comet-a-stara-moon-a-sunaura-r
 acoon-spring-summer-1986 - Date de vente : 20/06/2023
DESCRIPTION:Nom du lots : Hilde Smith fabrics for BodyMap\, ’Is a Comet a
  star...a moon... a sun...Aura Racoon’\, Spring-Summer\, 1986\n\ndesigne
 d November\,1985\,comprising: first silk screen print for ’Sun & Moon’
  purple colourway on nylon\, 156 by 93cm\; together with five further prin
 ted nylon fabric samples in yellow\, 92 by 92cm ivory\, 180 by 94cm\, 180 
 by 96cm and 135 by 95cm\, and orange 92 by 92 cm\; and six double sided pl
 astic coated press clippings\, one full page from British Vogue\, February
  1986\, another showing Hilde Smith wearing a tent dress\, bell bottoms in
  the ’’Occult and raccoon’ (Sun & Moon) print fabric she designed fo
 r BodyMap.’\; and a Hilde Smith racoon print flyer for the Spring 1986 s
 how\, (qty)The Hilde Smith ArchiveHilde Smith recalls the design process f
 or this collection:\n’The word pixel is a portmanteau of pix (from pictu
 res\, shortened to pics) and el (for element) similar formations with ’e
 l’. The word pix appeared in Variety magazine headlines in 1932\, as an 
 abbreviation for the word pictures in reference to still pictures by photo
 journalists. The word ’pixel was first published in 1965 by Frederic C. 
 Billingsley of Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory where it describes th
 e picture elements of scanned images from space probes to the Moon and Mar
 s. Billingsley had learned the word from Keith E.McFarland\, who in turn s
 aid that he did not know from where it originated. McFarland said simply i
 t was in use at the same time - circa 1963. I think of mosaics as early pi
 xels. I was working in a world without a world.wide.web and our Apple Mac 
 home computer could not handle images in those early years. It was essenti
 ally a clever word processor. I definitely had no means of ’bitmapping
 ’ or ’pixelating’ images.\nMy obsession with corrupting my hand-draw
 n images or linocuts using a random method led me to a technical chat with
  a TV cameraman at a photoshoot. Besides designing - I became a BodyMap ca
 twalk\, photo and exhibition sales model. We got chatting about my desire 
 to corrupt my drawings further. However\, the cameraman his mates\, and I 
 gave our ideas a go. He filmed my hand-drawn images using his TV camera co
 nnected to an editing screen. We repeatedly changed the camera lens focus 
 and contrast until we had a random bitmap image which I photographed from 
 the screen one at a time. All these wonderful pixels in exchange for a cur
 ry - it was worth it. I had ’PIXELS’. I drew on the images after photo
 copying them in India Ink using a dip pen and a Sharpie and then cut and p
 asted them into the design repeats. The prints for this collection were na
 med ’Stars’\, ’Sun & Moon’ and ’Cometa’. The ’Glitter Star
 ’ prints used in this collection were printed on wet-look black lycra in
  glitter pigment for swimwear that left little to the imagination. The mal
 e catwalk models loved the effect! We printed black and glitter and copper
  pigments on colour-dyed cloth. We decided to produce three one colour pri
 nts rather than one three colour print. The prints were proofed and produc
 ed in Bermondsey railway arches by David Jamison and Ivo Prints in Butlers
  Wharf.\nBoy George was one of the show models.
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