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Seaside photographed / Val Williams, Karen Shepherdson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Val, 1949- author.
- Shepherdson, K. J. (Karen J.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seaside resorts--Great Britain--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Seaside resorts.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Seaside resorts--Great Britain--History--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Thames & Hudson, 2019.
- Summary:
- How has the seaside been photographed? From the roaring waves of the nineteenth century through the reportage of the 1960s and the critical documentary of the 80s and 90s, to what is perhaps the more intimate work of the last ten years. No-one can tell it exactly the way it is. We all have a vision of the seaside which is uniquely our own. Memories, false and real, are aided and abetted by photography, a unique, fascinating, but in the end unreliable source of evidence. And time changes everything. What remains are a set of substantial fragments, thoughts along the way, obsessions, records, constructions, journeys. Ours for the taking. Exhibition: Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (opens on 24.05.2019) / then travels to Southampton, Blackpool and Cornwall in 2020.
- Contents:
- Waves on the Beach
- Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties
- Seaside Bohemias
- Reporting Back
- Halcyon Days
- Road Trips
- Who's Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now
- Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel
- Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century
- Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties.
- Notes:
- "With 208 photographs."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name held at Turner Contemporary, Margate, May 25-September 8, 2019; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, January 25-March 22, 2020; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, April 4-June 20, 2020; Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange, Newlyn, July 11-October 3, 2020.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0500022062
- 9780500022061
- OCLC:
- 1064765006
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