
Northern Exposures
A Magnum Photographer's Portrait of Rural Life in the North East
Chris Steele-Perkins(Author)
Northumbria University Press
Published on 1. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-904794-20-2 (ISBN)
Description
Returning to the North East in 2001 to document the Durham Coalfield, at one time the heartland of the British coal industry, Chris Steele-Perkins found himself in that ex-urban culture that we now associate with "Billy Elliot". This world of "lamping" (for rabbits), ferreting, whippet racing, grouse shooting, pigeon fancying and the rearing of birds of prey is a survival of what D. H. Lawrence once described as "a curious cross between industrialism and the old agricultural England of Shakespeare and Milton". Chris Steele-Perkins has memorably recorded this with visual wit, and a constant eye for the extraordinary. Nor is he at all sentimental: the harsh realities of blood-stained slaughter-houses and the vandalism of fly-tipping in the open countryside aren't excluded. His photographs, he says, "serve as both eulogy and elegy".
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Pembroke Dock
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McNidder & Grace
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
703 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904794-20-2 (9781904794202)
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Person
Chris Steele-Perkins is a freelance photographer who has won several prestigious awards, including the World Press Photo Award, La Nacion Premier Photojournalism Award, the Robert Capa Gold Medal, and the Terence Donovan Award. He is the author of "Afghanistan," "Echoes," "Fuji," "The Pleasure Principle," "The Teds," and "Tokyo Love Hello."