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Overview
Spotlights the work of a generation of British photographers (including David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Don McCullin) previously obscured by various myths of the Swinging Sixties. The book takes a wide sweep through 1960s media, drawing on fashion, advertising and magazine photojournalism.Editorials
Library Journal
Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere before slamming into hard earth, but in the late Fifties a handful of young Englishmen started breaking through an equally brutal barrier: high-minded art. With 35mm cameras and 400 ASA film, these ambitious young men didn't neatly fit into the schools of established "press" or "style" photographers. Like all artists, they were seeking "truth" and "integrity," but like everyone else they had to make a living, so they worked for news magazines that people read in pubs and threw in the trash. These self-proclaimed photojournalists successfully made art in the mass media--without a single flash and primarily in sooty, silvery black and white. Don McCullin's images of the Guv'nors of Finsbury Park--a gang, essentially--and Roger Mayne's Teddy boys--English greasers--are filled with life and swagger. Because this title's focus is so specific, some background in British culture and media history is helpful. Recommended for photojournalism collections.--Heather McCormack, "Library Journal"Book Details
Published
July 16, 1998
Publisher
London : Jonathan Cape, 1998.
Pages
159
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780224051293