Our Kids Are Going to Hell (SIGNED)

Maddock, Robin

ISBN 10: 1907112022 / ISBN 13: 9781907112027

Edité par Trolley Ltd., 2009

A propos de cet article

Signed by Maddock, in red ink, to the title page. Photographically illustrated card wrappers. No dust jacket, as issued. Text and photographs by Robin Maddock. Introduction by Iain Sinclair. Designed by Fruitmachine. 4to (25.5cm x 18cm), pp.140, 83 colour illustrations. Cited in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume III (London and New York: Phaidon, 2014). From the publisher: "Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going about their work in Hackney, east London. His photographs uncovered both a seedy nocturnal narrative, meandering through a young, and often underage, world of drugs and crime, but also a wider perspective of society and its interactions with the law today. An endless cycle of raids and arrests that never make the local newspapers, drugs are the most prized aspect of the raid, valued equally by both sides. Usually glamorous in their absence, they become visible only through confrontations, weapons, and a tide of visitors to the house of the parents. Glimpses of arrests and domestic and drug paraphernalia, set against the transient backdrop of fleeting Hackney street corners and stairwells, it will be familiar to but a few. The series shows a cast of characters on both sides of the law playing out their scenes with the mundane daily grind of a resigned and well-played ritual. Iain Sinclair, the esteemed writer on the history of London who lives in Hackney and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, has provided the introduction to the book.".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Our Kids Are Going to Hell (SIGNED)
• Éditeur: Trolley Ltd.
• Date de parution: 2009
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1907112022
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781907112027
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Robin Maddock spent three years accompanying local police going about their work in Hackney, east London. His photographs uncovered both a seedy nocturnal narrative, meandering through a young, and often underage, world of drugs and crime, but also a wider perspective of society and its interactions with the law today. An endless cycle of raids and arrests that never make the local newspapers, drugs are the most prized aspect of the raid, valued equally by both sides. Usually glamorous in their absence, they become visible only through confrontations, weapons, and a tide of visitors to the house of the parents. Glimpses of arrests and domestic and drug paraphernalia, set against the transient backdrop of fleeting Hackney street corners and stairwells, it will be familiar to but a few. The series shows a cast of characters on both sides of the law playing out their scenes with the mundane daily grind of a resigned and well-played ritual. Iain Sinclair, the esteemed writer on the history of London who lives in Hackney and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, has provided the introduction to the book.

À propos de l'auteur

Robin Maddock is a young British photographer living and working in London. In 2008 he was a finalist at the Descubrimientos at Photoespana. This is his first book. Iain Sinclair is an esteemed writer on the history of London, who lives in Hackney, and is also the recent author of a major survey of the area, Hackney, That Rose Red Empire.