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Ray's a laugh / Richard Billingham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billingham, Richard, 1970- photographer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Billingham, Richard, 1970---Family.
- Billingham, Richard.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photography of families.
- Alcoholics--Family relationships--Pictorial works.
- Alcoholics.
- Photographers--Great Britain--Portraits.
- Photographers.
- Photography of interiors--Great Britain.
- Photography of interiors.
- Photography of pets--Great Britain.
- Photography of pets.
- art photography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (approximately 316 pages) : only illustrations (mostly color) ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [England] : MACK, [2024]
- Summary:
- First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham's 'Ray's a Laugh' is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation. Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham's often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham's original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham's training as a painter: it constitutes a 'director's cut' and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era.
- Notes:
- No text in this volume. Publisher issued associated text separately in "Ray's a laugh : a reader" ("edited by Liz Jobey, which traces the book's compelling history from Billingham's 'discovery' at Sunderland University, through his Turner Prize nomination, to the present reworked edition.
- Also issued as a signed edition.--Publisher's web page.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 191574332X
- 9781915743329
- OCLC:
- 1406083711
- Online:
- Related Electronic Resource: Publisher's web page for this work, including scanned depiction of approximately 82 pages (viewed 2024 March 19):
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