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GUZELIAN: SAY BANANAS! COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY A MONKEY GO UNDER THE HAMMER
A collection of one-of-a-kind photographs is set to go under the hammer - so unique because the set was taken by a CHIMPANZEE.
Mikki the monkey�s snapshots of Moscow�s Red Square, Russia, show a blurry picture of life through an animal�s eyes, to form the exhibition �Our Moscow through the Eyes of Mikki�.
Contemporary artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, two of the founding members of Moscow Conceptualism of the 1970s, discovered chimpanzee Mikki as a popular performer at the Moscow Circus.
They taught the 15-year-old chimpanzee how to take photos with a Polaroid, and then by a regular analog and an antique camera.
Mikki�s take on the world presents a new perspective akin to experimental photography and reference millions of photos taken by tourists on a daily basis.
The pictures, which will be sold at Sotheby�s Auction House, London, on June 5, are expected to fetch between �50,000 - �70,000.
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