
Terry Dennett: The Crisis Project
Photographs and Texts
Terry Dennett(Author)
MuseumsEtc (Publisher)
Published on 1. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-912528-57-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on little-known and unpublished archive material, The Crisis Project makes available for the first time Terry Dennett's work from his ground-breaking, 37-year project to record the visual evidence for "a criminal trial against those who have presided over the despoliation and destruction of our society."
Terry Dennett (1938-2018), a socialist, and tirelessly active, sought new ways of understanding, seeing and changing the world through photography. He remains one the most influential figures in radical British photography, with an impact extending far beyond image-making - into publishing, exhibiting, teaching and shaping photographic theory. The Crisis Project forms part of a ground-breaking trilogy of books - alongside Terry Dennett & Jo Spence: Our Studio Was The World and Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings - which explores their unpublished work, ideas and committed socialist perspective.
Terry Dennett (1938-2018), a socialist, and tirelessly active, sought new ways of understanding, seeing and changing the world through photography. He remains one the most influential figures in radical British photography, with an impact extending far beyond image-making - into publishing, exhibiting, teaching and shaping photographic theory. The Crisis Project forms part of a ground-breaking trilogy of books - alongside Terry Dennett & Jo Spence: Our Studio Was The World and Jo Spence: The Unknown Recordings - which explores their unpublished work, ideas and committed socialist perspective.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Illustrations
126 colour and monochrome images
Dimensions
Height: 171 mm
Width: 230 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912528-57-8 (9781912528578)
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Persons
Terry Dennett (1938-2018) was a photographer, social historian and educational workshop organiser. For the last nineteen years of his life he curated the Jo Spence Memorial Archive in London, Spence being one of his main collaborators until her death in 1992. Dennett was a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute with a special interest in urban crisis and social exclusion.
Content
Introduction | Julia Winckler
The Debris of the Struggle
Society in Motion
Unfolding Drama
Burke's Pentadic Ratios
Economics 101
Preparing the Ground
The Crisis Project: Photographs
The Debris of the Struggle
Society in Motion
Unfolding Drama
Burke's Pentadic Ratios
Economics 101
Preparing the Ground
The Crisis Project: Photographs