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British photographer Richard Billingham has produced a frighteningly personal artist's book in the tradition of Nan Goldin's "Ballad of Sexual dependency" and R. Crumb's cartoons and films. Here the subject is Billingham's own dysfunctional family torn apart by the ravages of alcoholism and poverty. Billingham documents their squalid surroundings and violent interactions with shocking candor. He turns his camera lens on Raymond, his alcoholic father, stumbling through his life in a drunken stupor; Elizabeth, his mother, covered in tattoos who fills the emotional void in her life with her collection of pets; and Jason, his brother, an aimless young man who is drawn to drugs. This project blasts the lid off of one of our remaining taboos.
Paperback, 8.25 x 11 inches, 112 pages, 75 color illustrations.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. 3908247373. Softcover, light corner wear. Not ex. library, illustrated with colour photographs. In 1996, a book of photographs was launched to immediate popular and critical success. Taken within the claustrophobic, chaotic interior of a Birmingham council flat where the photographer's father, Ray, an alcoholic, lived with Liz, his sedentary and occasionally violent mother, and his younger brother Jason. For the public, including cultured, art-loving viewers, the pictures were absolutely shocking. Contents clean, binding tight. Book. Seller Inventory # 035817
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Ray's a Laugh
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. The pages are unmarked, in very good condition and tightly bound. No creasing but some sunning on the spine. Soft crease at the top corners of the front and rear covers of this lightly read book. Mailed the same or next working day in a cardboard book box. Seller Inventory # 489.55
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Ray's a Laugh [2000 SCALO PAPERBACK 2nd EDITION]
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition. Scalo, Zurich, SWITZERLAND, Berlin, GERMANY & New York, 2000. Softcover in pictorial wraps. Second Edition. 4to. Unpaginated with numerous full-page color photographic images throughout. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth. Richard Billingham's acclaimed first book chronicles of the everyday goings on within the home of Billingham's Mother and alcoholic father, Ray. Cited in Parr & Badger vol. II, pp. 304-305. BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine; a solid, clean copy showing light overall rubbing to covers, edges and corners with a slight lean to the spine. Seller Inventory # 11199
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RAY'S A LAUGH
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ISBN 10: 3908247373
ISBN 13: 9783908247371
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 99pp. Large format. No text. Seller Inventory # 106334
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