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Sergio Larrain: London. 1959.

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sergio Larrain: London. 1959.
Authors and Contributors      Introduction by Agnes Sire
Text by Roberto Bolano
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 245,Width 185
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9780500545416
ClassificationsDewey:779.99421
Audience
General
Illustrations 94 Halftones, duotone

Publishing Details

Publisher Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publication Date 14 January 2021
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In 1958, Sergio Larrain's photographs of a smoggy, down-at-heel London captured an extraordinarily powerful vision of the city. Larrain's London is a fast-moving blur of activity. He revealed the signs of the emergence of a new, post-war London society - in its streets, parks, pubs and clubs - and captured the class divisions, the burgeoning fashions of its youth, and the everyday life of Londoners about to enter a new decade: the Sixties. The photographs brought Larrain to the attention of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who immediately signed him to Magnum Photos. This edition comprises the entire series including around forty previously unseen images from the archives of Magnum Photos. These powerful photographs conjure up the mood of a coal-fired, smoke-laden London that has long since disappeared. With 94 illustrations

Author Biography

Agnes Sire has been the director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris since its creation in 2003.

Reviews

'If you like archive photos, black & white and to see how a master of street photography operated, this is one for your shelf' - Amateur Photographer 'Both real and imaginative while evoking a haunting beauty, the London we see breaks away from the illustrative and is distilled to its core. Imbued with poetic pathos' - Black & White Photography