A Group Photograph - Before, Now & In-Between - Softcover

Tatham, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993530206 ISBN 13: 9780993530203

Publisher: Arvo Veritas, 2016

Synopsis

One of The Guardian's 'Best Books of 2016', it is the culmination of 21 years of research & creation based on a First World War group photograph. The lives of all 46 men in the photograph are told through artefacts, letters, poems, stories, family tree drawings, photographs, memorials + old & new stained glass windows (over 2000 pictures in all). You may not know who these individuals are but in telling their specific & often touching stories & making artwork based on them, the author is aiming to say some things that are universal to all of us as human beings - about the mysteries of life and death, about how we choose to deal with the things that life chooses for us, & about how we are remembered. Zoom in & look at some of the pages in the images above. Not with a big name publisher but over 6000 copies sold.

"It's a magnificent book" - Melvyn Bragg

“Honestly I can't recommend it enough – the whole year we've done different books on this show but this is the one that is just so powerful” & "It's the most amazing book" - Jeremy Vine

“One solitary photograph forms the catalyst for Andrew Tatham’s astonishing A Group Photograph. Two decades of research have uncovered the extraordinary details & contexts of these young men: their lives, their families & their fates” - William Boyd in The Guardian's Best Books of 2016

"Endlessly fascinating & profoundly moving. It brings the past to life with matchless vividness" - John Carey of The Sunday Times

“Its contents will certainly remain with me, as they must with whoever has the luck to study it” - Diana Athill

"So interesting, your Group Photograph. So well researched & produced" - Michael Morpurgo

"There are hundreds, if not thousands, of new publications for the Great War centenary & very few of them stand out as innovative & different. One that does is Joe Sacco’s 'The Great War — An Illustrated Panorama' … & another is 'A Group Photograph'. Both are superb ‘one-offs’."

Edition details

• Publisher: Arvo Veritas
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0993530206
• ISBN 13: 9780993530203
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200