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I just put together the show Iconography of Revolt and stupidly didn’t think to request this photo—Christopher Williams’s Model: 1964 Renault Dauphine Four, R-1095 … (2000). It’s in the collection of the always helpful Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, and would have been simply perfect. It refers to May 1968 in France—those striking Renault-factory workers. Upturned, the car evokes the barricades. And yet Williams’s photo looks like it was shot not in the stone-throwing hubbub of street riots, but in the controlled environment of the studio, as if for an ad. Well lit. Crisp, but coy. (Iconography of Revolt, City Gallery Wellington, until 19 November).
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