Chris Killip: 1946-2020 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500025584 ISBN 13: 9780500025581

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

The definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers

About this title

About the Author

Ken Grant is a photographer, curator and educator. He is a lecturer on the MFA Photography course at the University of Ulster. Tracy Marshall-Grant is Director of Development at the Royal Photographic Society and Producer at Northern Narratives.

From the Back Cover

The definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip (1946-2020), one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. ‘I didn’t set out to be the photographer of the English de-Industrial Revolution. It happened all around me during the time I was photographing’ Chris Killip, 2019. Grounded in sustained immersion and participation in the communities he photographed, Chris Killip’s keenly observed work chronicled ordinary people’s lives in stark, yet sympathetic, detail. His photographs are recognized as some of the most important visual records of 1980s Britain; as editor of this book Ken Grant reflects, they tell the story of those who ‘had history “done to them”, who felt its malicious disregard and yet, like the photographer with whom they shared so much of their lives, refused to yield or look away.’ Published to coincide with the first full retrospective of Killip’s life and work at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, this book, designed by Niall Sweeney & Nigel Truswell at Pony Ltd, presents photographs from each of his major series alongside lesser-known works. It includes a foreword by Brett Rogers, in-depth texts by Ken Grant tracing Killip’s life and career, and essays by Gregory Halpern, Amanda Maddox and Lynsey Hanley.

Edition details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0500025584
• ISBN 13: 9780500025581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Grant Ken, Marshall-Grant Tracy, Marshall Tracy