Limited Edition
Chris Killip
Pony Ltd.
English
Hardcover
Edition of 250
124 pages
Slipcase set of four publications
385 x 295 mm
2019
ISBN 9781999668747
A powerful, moving and personal selection of work by Chris Killip, thematically brought together in four publications as a limited slipcase edition of 250, signed and numbered. Over a total of 124 pages, these high-quality newsprint, tabloid-format publications feature photographs spanning 1970–89, with many unpublished before. The design is a direct riff on Erich Mendelsohn’s 1926 AMERIKA, which hailed the burgeoning American industrial architectures and new era of capitalism of the time, with Chris’s photographs documenting its decline only 50 or so years later on this side of the Atlantic.
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About the Artist
Chris Killip is widely regarded as one of the most influential British photographers of his generation. Born in the Isle of Man in 1946, he began his career as a commercial photographer before turning to his own work in the late 1960s. His book, In Flagrante, a collection of photographs made in the North East of England during the 1970s and early 1980s, is now recognised as a landmark work of documentary photography. Other bodies of work include the series Isle of Man, Seacoal, Skinningrove and Pirelli. In 1991, Killip was invited to be a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University. In 1994, he was made a tenured professor and was department chair from 1994_98. He retired from Harvard in December 2017 and continued to live in Cambridge, MA, USA, until his death in October, 2020. His photographs feature in the permanent collections of many major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Britain and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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About the Publisher
Pony Ltd. is a graphic design studio founded at the beginning of the 21st century. It is the creative collaboration of Niall Sweeney (Dublin) and Nigel Truswell (Sheffield).
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