True Faith
Peter’s early work was embroiled in the art of ‘appropriation’, an eclectic mix of sleeve designs created from a tapestry of historical references. During the mid-Eighties Peter moved away from this process and asked how to be ‘modern’. Together with Trevor Key — photographer, studio neighbour and long-term collaborator — a trade-secret process was created that they referred to as ‘dichromat’ photography.
Like a contemporary reinterpretation of Warhol’s acid coloured silk-screen prints, this in-camera technique took natural and inanimate objects and turned them into hyper-real, vivid, dream-like images. Against a background of Yves Klein blue, a solitary gold leaf is suspended in space; the image is counterbalanced perfectly against a neoclassical arrangement of Bauer Bodoni. Like the music, the image is open to interpretation; the design however is seminal Peter Saville.
