1989 · New York City, New York, United States

UNTITLED (WDM 192)

UNTITLED (WDM 192) is a named, editioned photograph selected by Hamiltons for its 2025 presentation of We Dance in Mysteries: The Isaac Mizrahi Photographs. The gallery dates the work to 1989–1995 and identifies it as a C-print on Fuji Matt Crystal Archive paper mounted to aluminium. Its individual importance lies in providing a fixed catalogue entry within a body of work otherwise defined by movement between studio life and club culture. It merits selection as a directly documented, exhibition-specific work through which the broader project can be represented without reducing that project to a single celebrity portrait.

Self Portrait with Cindy Crawford and Isaac Mizrahi

1990 · New York City, New York, United States

Self Portrait with Cindy Crawford and Isaac Mizrahi

This 1990 photograph places Waplington himself with Cindy Crawford and Isaac Mizrahi, making the photographer’s presence explicit within the fashion-world access that underpins We Dance in Mysteries. Hamiltons identifies it as an image made during Waplington’s backstage access to Mizrahi’s fitting sessions, where he photographed models and the designer’s working environment. The picture merits individual selection because its self-portrait format condenses the project’s central relation: the photographer is neither detached observer nor conventional fashion-image maker, but a participant navigating a creative network in downtown New York.

1990

Untitled colour photograph of a man fixing a car in the street whilst children play on the pavement

From: Living Room

This circa-1990 colour photograph isolates a street-level episode: a man repairs a car while children play on the pavement. The Science Museum Group’s unusually descriptive collection title directs attention to the coexistence of labour, care, play, and traffic in one ordinary residential setting. It merits selection as an individual image because it condenses the social observation central to Waplington’s early work without converting its subjects into symbols. The broad colour print and horizontal format allow everyday action to unfold across the frame, making the street an extension of domestic life.

1995

Dead Farmer

Dead Farmer is a colour print catalogued by the Science Museum Group as part of Waplington’s Death series and acquired from the 1995 exhibition The Dead. The museum record establishes the photograph as an individual work within a tightly focused series rather than merely an untitled image from a larger archive. It merits inclusion because it documents Waplington’s engagement with death as a photographic subject while retaining his commitment to colour printmaking. Its exhibition and collection history give this otherwise little-published image a clear institutional place in the artist’s mid-1990s work.

2004

Thetan Feet

Thetan Feet is a dated 2004 photograph included in Double Dactyl. Its deliberately opaque title is characteristic of a project that declines the explanatory certainty often expected from documentary captions. Selected as an individual work, it gives a concentrated entry into Waplington’s shift from social observation toward pictures whose meanings are activated by title, juxtaposition, and sequence. The photograph merits catalog inclusion not as a stand-alone claim about its subject, but because the agency identifies it as a named work within the Whitechapel-era project that questioned photographic authority and reality.