Stephen Gill (b. 1971, Bristol, UK) became interested in photography in his early childhood, thanks to his father and interest in insects and initial obsession with collecting bits of pond life to inspect under his microscope.
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John Stezaker: Lost World (Ridinghouse, 2017)
British Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. In 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, even though he does not take photographs.
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Nick Waplington: Truth or Consequences (Phaidon Press, 2001)
Nick Waplington (b.1965) is a British artist and photographer based in London and New York City. He is the recipient of numerous photographic prizes including the British and European Kodak Awards, and the ICP Young Photographer Award, 1993. Truth and Consequences is Waplington’s sixth book.
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Richard Billingham: Ray’s a Laugh ( Scalo Publishers, 2000)
Photographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high-rise tenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. Ray’s a Laugh is an intimate glimpse into the lives of his close family.
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Tom Wood: People (Wienand Verlag,1999)
Originally trained as a painter, Irish born Tom Wood is better known as a street photographer, with his earlier work focused on the Merseyside area (1978-2001).
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Chris Killip: arbeit / work (Edition Folkwang / Steidl, 2012)
Arbeit/Work is a book of photographs selected and sequenced by Killip himself on the occasion of his major retrospective at the Folkwang Museum, Essen in 2012.
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