Graham, Paul. Beyond caring. London, Grey Editions (1986). Quer-4°. [64] Bl. mit 32 Farbtafeln. Farbig illustr. OKart.
Auer 669. Parr/Badger II, 300. –
Erste Ausgabe. – „The … book is one of the key works defining the New
Colour Documentary in the UK, and represents the most overtly
documentary side of Graham’s practice. The work was shot all over
Britain during 1984 and 1985, and shows a welfare and benefits system
under immense stain towards the end of Magaret Thatcher’s premiership of
the Conservative government. … Graham’s images show all the tedium and
humiliation incumbent upon being unemployed and forced to wait long
hours in drap, run-down government centres for a weekly handout from the
state. It is a rite of passage that many young artists (including
Graham) undergo and the bitter tone of his images reflects that personal
experience, as well as his outrage at a system that humiliates both the
recipients and its operators. … Graham shot these dole offices in
colour, in a surreptitious manner that seemed to place him both as a spy
and as a protagonist“ (Parr/Badger). – Umschlag minimal berieben, sehr
gutes Exemplar.
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