Steve McQueen with gun, circa 1960 - Lot 49

Steve McQueen with gun, circa 1960 Black and white digital print Dimensions: 20 x 30.2 cm Note: This iconic photograph of Steve McQueen in a relaxed but tense pose, gun in hand, perfectly illustrates the image he embodied at the turn of the 1960s: that of a modern anti-hero, controlled, cold and resolutely masculine. The scene, captured in an uncluttered interior, contrasts the apparent nonchalance of the pose with the symbolic charge of the weapon, accentuating the dramatic tension of the image. Black and white reinforces the graphic rigor of the composition and places this shot in the lineage of photographs that forged the McQueen myth, a cult actor in American cinema and a central figure in the virile, minimalist aesthetic of the XXᵉ century.