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Homage to Claire Churchill.
Advertiser’s Announcement. Np.: self-published, nd. (1967). Photo-illustrated card. 26.7x18.5cm. Verso blank.
The first in the series of five Advertiser’s Announcements Ballard created and placed at his own expense in Ambit magazine between 1967 and 1971.
Published on the back cover of issue no. 32 (and later in New Worlds in October 1967), it features John Blomfield's close-up photograph of Claire Churchill (Walsh), Ballard’s then girlfriend (later life partner), who had recently been introduced to Ballard by Michael Moorcock.
Along the lower edge, a printed text reads: “Homage to Claire Churchill, Abraham Zapruder and Ralph Nader. At what point does the plane of intersection of these eyes generate a valid image of the simulated auto-disaster, the alternate deaths of Dealey Plaza and the Mekong Delta.” A list of all five Advertiser’s Announcements follows, each of them a ‘J.G. Ballard Production’.
In the blank upper part, a holograph note in blue ink invites the card's unnamed recipient (Nathaniel Tarn) to an Ambit party at The Swan in Holborn on July 10, 1969.
Slight damage to right edge; upper left and lower right corners slightly creased; o/w Very Good.