Chris Killip

"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. Known for his urgent, unvarnished, and empathetic images of British working-class communities in the 1970s and 1980s, Killip eventually moved to the United States, where he taught photography at Harvard University for more than twenty-five years. Published in connection with a major exhibition opening in October 2022 at The Photographers' Gallery, London, prior to an international tour, this volume includes the most important images from throughout Killip's extraordinary career. Including previously unpublished illustrations and ephemera as well as photographs spanning Killip's entire life with texts by Ken Grant, Amanda Maddox, Gregory Halpern, and Lynsey Hanley, and a foreword by Brett Rogers, director of the Photographers' Gallery, this exquisite collection sheds new light on an astonishing talent"--

Foreword by Brett Rogers, Director of the Photographers Gallery

1. Essay by Ken Grant covering: Isle of Man Graveyard of the Ships / Early years / The Manx Peasant culture / The Sea / London-New York/ The Isle of Man Book

Folio Section 1: Isle of Man TT Racers Huddersfield

2. Essay by Ken Grant covering: Huddersfield, Travels of England, the North, Amber-Side Gallery, Seacoal, Askam and Skinningrove

Folio Section 2: Askam Skinningrove Seacoal The Station folio

Folio Section 3: Here Comes Everybody

Folio Section 4: Pirelli Factory

3. Essay by Ken Grant covering: The Page and the Wall: Another Country, The Miner's Strike, The Politics of Photography, The Station, In Flagrante, British Photography from the Thatcher Years (MoMA Exhibition)

Folio Section 4: North East Photographs 2

4. Essay by Ken Grant covering: Chris Killip in America, Chris Killip in Ireland (Here Comes Everybody), Storytellers, Writer, Steidl books, Zines, Cafe Royal Books (The Seaside), The Portrait, Pirelli, Shipbuilding, Revisiting the Region, The Photography of Deindustrialisation, The Last Ships, Finish