Killip, In flagrante
Killip, In flagrante
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Killip, Christopher. In flagrante. With an essay by John Berger & Sylvia Grant. London, Secker & Warburg (1988). 4° (31 x 21,5 cm.). 93 S. mit 50 Tafeln. Publishers cloth binding with illustrated dust jacket. Auer 675. Parr/Badger II, 299. Roth, The Open Book 340 f. – First edition; inscribed by C. Killip „For Victor on 4 OB, Hasty Pudding Club, + Harvard All the best Chris“. – „In Flagrante is a singulary original work of art, both passionate and partisan. This is not an objective report. Killip tells his personal tale through these pictures, but he also allows his subjects’ collective story a clear voice of its own. The pictures in In Flagrante – primarily candid portraits and urban landscapes made in rich-toned black and white, predominantly shot with a 4x5 camera – were made in the northeast of England during the premiership of Margaret Thatscher… In Flagrante is a dark, pessimistic journey, perhaps even a secret odyssey, where rigorous documentary is suffused with a contemplative inwardness, a rare quality in modern photography“ (Parr/Badger). – „Renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies Chris Killip died from lung cancer on Oct. 13. He was 74. Killip was a professor of photography in VES (now Art, Film, and Visual Studies) from 1991 to 2017, and the department chair from 1994 to 1998. For more than two decades, he had worked from the basement of the Carpenter Center, sharing his love of the art form with students and colleagues. … In 1988, Killip published his second and most famous book of photographs, “In Flagrante,” which captured the everyday fallout from deindustrialization and economic decline in northeastern England in the 1970s and 1980s. His arresting documentary style of photography captured the attention of critics and viewers alike, and Killip received the inaugural Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, now called le Prix HCP. … “His photographs embodied Henri Cartier-Bresson’s emphasis on the decisive moments, and Josef Koudelka’s eye for the surreal. He captured in arresting black-and-white photographs fleeting moments filled with powerful emotions,” said AFVS Professor Sharon Harper. “He was looking closely at people, labor, and the plight of the worker.“ The introductory photography course VES 40a, which he ran for many years, accommodated 100 students split into 10 sections. Even with so many spots, said Moss, the class often attracted two or three times as many students as it could accommodate. “Chris leaves quite a legacy of his documentary photography, which is known internationally, but also he has a legacy of students who were devoted to him and discovered photography through their studies with him,” added Harper“ (M. Aggarwal-Schifellite, Documentary photographer Chris Killip dies at 74, The Harvard Gazette, October 21, 2020). – A very fine copy of the rare hardback edition.
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