Chris Killip: In Flagrante Two

Description

The photographs that Chris Killip made in Northern England between 1973 and 1985 were first published by Secker & Warburg in the book In Flagrante in 1988. The new oversized Steidl edition is a radically updated presentation, showing a single image on the right side of each double-page spread. In Flagrante Two is strident in its belief in the primacy of the photograph, embracing ambiguities and contradictions in an unadorned narrative sequence devoid of text.

Chris Killip, born on the Isle of Man in 1946, is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. His works are held in the permanent collections of, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House, Rochester; the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books include Isle of Man (1980), Pirelli Work (2006), Here Comes Everybody (2009), Seacoal (2011) and arbeit/work (2012).

[Chris Killip's] fierce loyalty to the hardscrabble people he portrays has lent his work, over the years, an unfailingly political charge.--Tomas Unger "The Threepenny Review" [Killip's] photographs remain some of the most powerful images to ever capture 1970s and 1980s Britain.--Corey Charlton "Daily Mail Online" A rare opportunity to see the entire series.--Jean Dykstra "Photograph Magazine" Every picture is given space to breathe, and to reveal its secrets.-- "B+W Photography" Killip's photographs are rich with history and with stories.--Carolina A. Miranda "The Los Angeles Times" Killip's photographs invite us to contemplate the destruction of a way of life...They also challenge us to do something about it.--John Yau "Hyperallergic" This book is a masterpiece--Moises Saman "Photo-Eye Blog, Best of 2016" Widely considered Killip's masterpiece.--Paula Erizanu "Wallpaper" Chris Killip's In Flagrante Two succeeds so easily: you turn the pages, and the good pictures just keep coming. There are less than a handful of photographs I would not miss in the book. The rest are just brilliant.--Joerg M. Colberg "Conscientious Photo Magazine" Killip photographed tight-knit industrial communities of the [North East England] region in beautiful black and white, publishing the results in an iconic 1988 book, In Flagrante, named for a legal term that roughly means "caught in the act." The photos are... available in a new book published by Steidl, In Flagrante Two, which adds two photographs to the series.--Jordan Teicher "Slate.com"