Sergio Larrain: London. 1959.
Roberto Bolano author Agnès Sire editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
Published:14th Jan '21
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Sergio Larrain's classic collection of photographs of London, updated to include previously unpublished photographs
A new edition of Sergio Larrain's classic collection, featuring forty previously unseen photographs.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
'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
ISBN: 9780500545416
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 760g
176 pages