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The first comprehensive examination of contemporary artist Richard Billingham, this book aims to provide an insightful overview and original interpretation of the artist's practice from the early 1990s to the present day. Illustrated throughout with colour and black and white reproductions, it combines accessibility and clarity of presentation with critical analysis and meticulous research. Conceived as an introduction to Billingham's art for a general audience, 'Photographic Realism: The Art of Richard Billingham' is an essential resource for the history and theory of contemporary aesthetics and visual culture. Yet it is not an exclusively academic text, but is intended to appeal to students of art and visual culture, art industry administrators, curators, gallerists, journalists, reviewers and art critics, as well as media and lens-based practitioners seeking to contextualise their practice.

Billingham, Richard, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In 1996, a book of photographs by an unknown young British photographer was launched on to the London contemporary art market to immediate popular and critical success. The pictures were taken within the claustrophobic, chaotic interior of a Birmingham council flat where the photographer’s father, Ray, an alcoholic, lived with Liz, his sedentary and occasionally violent mother, and his younger brother Jason. For the public, including cultured, art-loving viewers, the pictures were a shock: more intimate, more personal, more oppressive than the well-meaning photojournalistic study of working-class poverty to which they were accustomed. Some saw them as a betrayal – exposing unsuspecting family members to potential humiliation – but from Richard Billingham’s point of view they made moral judgements and had no social or political purpose. He had taken them as reference images for his painting, and their lives as artworks were as much a result of the interventions of other editors and gallerists as of Billingham’s own intentions. This reader traces the history of a body of work which remains as vital and provocative as on its first release, and whose story tells us much about the workings of art, publishing, and the politics of dissemination. Editor Liz Jobey charts the history in a new essay drawing on interviews with Billingham and all the primary protagonists of the work’s emergence, including Michael Collins, Julian Germain, and Paul Graham. This is followed by an extensive selection of conversations and essays from 1996 to the present day, by writers including Charlotte Cotton, Gordon Burn, Lynn Barber, and Jim Lewis. This book coincides with the release of a new edition of Ray’s a Laugh restoring Billingham’s original vision for the book.

Photography, Artistic --- Photography of families --- Billingham, Richard,

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First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation. Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham’s often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham’s training as a painter: it constitutes a ‘director’s cut’ and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era.

Photography, Artistic --- Photography of families --- Alcoholics --- Photographers --- Billingham, Richard, - 1970 --- -

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