Chris Killip: 1946-2020

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Erschien ein Jahr nach und in einer sehr viel kleineren Auflage (von nur 1000 Exemplaren) als die englische Original-Ausgabe (Martin Secker und Warburg, London, 1988). In his out-of-print photo volume 'Seacoal' British photographer Chris KILLIP records life, work as well as the struggle for survival on a beach in the northeast of England in the early 1980s. In Flagrante is a book of 50 photographs taken in the 70s and 80s documenting the lives of those who had depended on disbanded coal industries in northern England.

Chris KILLIP was one of the most influential photographers and teachers to emerge from the United Kingdom. Lots of people I know on estates, in hospitals, in unemployment queues, now walk on their individual knows and their individual heads are bowed and they haven’t the energy to strengthen their individual spines. Each book features a specially selected sequence of images alongside an introduction and a conversation with or about each photographer’s practice.Wunderschöne, erweiterte neu-gestaltete Auflage des legendären Fotobuch-Klassikers von 1988: Martin Parr, The Photobook vol 2, Seite 299. Chris Killip first attempted to photograph Seacoal Beach in Lynemouth, Northumberland, England, in 1976, but it took him six years to gain the trust of the people who worked there. Killip's images reveal the impact of de-industrialisation, unemployment, and social disintegration on the people and landscapes of these communities. A highly anticipated retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip, one of the leading and most influential photographers to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last century. Tracy Marshall-Grant is Director of Development at the Royal Photographic Society and Producer at Northern Narratives.

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. The tactile pleasure of this hardbound book, with its lush paper and sublime tonal printing, nearly overwhelms the content of Killip’s images depicting the landscape and people of working-class England and Ireland during the Thatcher era of the 1970’s and 80’s. The Station was not merely a music and rehearsal space, but a crucible for the self-expression of the sub-cultures and punk politics of the time.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. This book, 'The Station' by Chris KILLIP, documents an inclusive collective that offered refuge to young people threatened by unemployment in April 1985, shortly after the miners' strike. Introduction by Chris Killip, essay by John Berger and Sylvia Grant; edited by Mark Holborn; design by Peter Dyer. When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth, in January 1976, I recognized the coalmine and powerstation above it but nothing else.

Late in 2016 Chris Killip’s son serendipitously discovered a box of contact sheets of the photos his father had made at The Station, an anarcho-punk music venue in Gateshead open from 1981 to 1985. If ever there were a soundtrack to accompany a photobook, it would be John Lennon’s music played while breathing in the staggering beauty that is the photography of fellow working-class brilliant Brit, Chris Killip. Published one year after and in a much more smaller run (of only 1000 copies) than the original english edition (Martin Secker and Warburg, London, 1988). 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. The title, "In Flagrante," suggests a sense of capturing these communities and individuals in the midst of their struggles.To the people in these photographs I am superfluous, my life does not depend upon their struggle, only my hopes. Living, on and off, in a caravan on Lynemouth’s Seacoal camp from 1982 to 1984, Killip immersed himself in their struggles to survive. Chris Killip 1946 - 2020 is the definitive, full-career retrospective of the life and work of Chris Killip, one of the UK’s most important and influential post-war documentary photographers. If so, one might learn that the charismatic fisherman Leso, who figures prominently in Killip’s early 1980s photos of the small fishing village in Skillingrove, UK, would himself eventually be lost at sea.

Announcing 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. 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.In 1991 Killip was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University. In Flagrante, Killip's "subjective book about my time in England" during its "de-industrialisation" (Killip's preface) is one of the greatest photobooks of the late 20th century, "a dark, pessimistic journey, perhaps even a secret odyssey, where rigorous documentary is suffused with a contemplative inwardness, a rare quality in modern photography" (Gerry Badger). For me that was important, that you're acknowledging people's lives, and also contextualizing people's lives. People worked hard, made little, and correctly believed that their government took them for granted.