Chris. Pirelli Work.

by KILLIP

£400 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

First edition with extra loose photographs KILLIP, Chris. Pirelli Work. Gottingen, Steidl Publishers .2006. Large 4to. Original grey cloth bound boards with black lettering; photo-illustrated dust jacket; includes three signed photograph plates loosely inserted; pp. [6], 7-85; minimal crease to left corner of front cover of dust jacket; slight staining to extremities of dust jacket; otherwise near fine copy. First edition, with three loosely inserted black-and-white photographs by Killip, signed and inscribed to Claire de Rouen. Born in the Isle of Man in 1946 and revered for his documentation of working-class life in the post-industrial North of England, Chris Killip would become one of the UK's most prolific Post-War photographers. His harsh but empathetic black and white perspective specifically drew attention to marginalised communities perpetually neglected from view, for example in his series Seacoal , in which he photographed men on horse-driven carts unearthing coal which had been discarded into the sea from a neighbouring mine. Pirelli Work is a series of photographs of workers at the Pirelli tyre factory in Burton-Upon-Trent in 1989. Interestingly, most precious to the process of rendering a realistic and intimate portrayal of life inside the factory was Killip's relationship with light with Killip copying certain fashion techniques; "The main light, which was the one balanced to light the subject, was often held on a pole by my friend, away from the camera, mimicki

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