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Loading... I Send You this Cadmium Redby John Berger
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"By air mail / Par avion: I SEND YOU THIS CADMIUM RED... is a book of correspondence between two friends, John Berger and John Christie. It began in February 1997, when in response to an open question from Christie: 'What could our next project be?' Berger replied: 'Just send a colour...' A painted square of Cadmium Red crossed the Channel. For Berger this first colour suggested 'innocence.' '...the red of childhood... the red of young eyelids shut tight.' Later he talked about his favourite red, the red of Caravaggio: '...the red by which you swear to love forever... the red whose father is the knife.' (