Fading Light
A Magnum Photographer's Portraits of Centenarians
Published on 1. July 2012
Book
Hardback
104 pages
978-0-85716-032-4 (ISBN)
Description
It was the amazing statistic which got Chris Steele-Perkins attention. There are 10,000 people aged over 100 in the UK and that number is growing rapidly. The Office of National Statistics predicts that 5% of the people alive today in the UK will live to be over 100. That is 3 million people. However, this book is not about statistics and the implications, it is about the people. In Fading Light Chris creates a portrait of this new generation. They are a mixed bunch of people who have seen many changes throughout their lives and have many stories to tell. Fading Light is a moving book showing the increasing number of centenarians and their miraculous ability to survive until the great age of 100.
Reviews / Votes
Praise fro Chris Steele-Perkins "Documentary approach that shows the English at work and at play over the last four decades. By turns gritty and evocative, it is a book one imagines that Orwell would have liked very much." The Guardian, Photobooks of the Year 2009 "The book contains some strong and touching images, and is very good on some key points in the difficult evolution of a multicultural nation." British Journal of Photography "It captures the little triumphs and larger miseries of the lives of ordinary people - the poor and the upwardly mobile, the idle and the abandoned." New StatesmanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pembroke Dock
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 245 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
738 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85716-032-4 (9780857160324)
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Person
Chris Steele-Perkins is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Magnum photographer whose assignments have taken him around the world. Born in Burma in 1947 he moved to England when he was two. His books include The Teds (1979), Beirut: The Frontline Story (1983), The Pleasure Principle (1989), Afghanistan (2000), Tokyo Love Hello (2007) Northern Exposures (2007) and England, My England (2009).