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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - Writing In The Sand
The sandy beaches of North East England are beautiful, the climate beastly. This is no Theme Park. The high-spirited happenings are spontaneous, generous acts of Geordie exuberance. Here you find yourself laughing with your fellow...£15.99 -
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - Byker
”It is Ms. Konttinen’s personal dialogue with the people of Byker, her own entry into the community and recordings of its voices that gives the book a particular punch” – Newcastle Journal In 1969 when...£6.95 -
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - Step by Step
Photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen traces the lives of mothers and daughters from a dancing school in North Shields into the outside world over a period of seven years, documenting their dreams and realities in conversations and...£7.95 -
Jimmy Forsyth - Scotswood Road
”When the planners moved in with their grand visions of a new Britain they just flung people all over the town” – Jimmy Forsyth Jimmy Forsyth’s book Scotswood Road has been a sell out. A...£6.95 -
Stepping Up
Stepping Up tracked the lives of a group of young people in Weardale, County Durham, as they made the move, in summer 1997, from their small village primary schools to the large comprehensive (senior) school...£5.99 -
Peruvian Photography
Images from the Southern Andes 1900-1945.Miguel Chani, José Gabriel Gonzáles, Juan Manuel Figueroa Aznar, Filiberto & Crisanto Cabrera, Avelino Ochoa. Beautifully produced little catalogue of the work of Martin Chambi’s contemporaries at the “Cuzco School”...£3.00 -
Tina Modotti
This catalogue, produced by the Berlin photo gallery Galerie Bilderwelt, reviews Modotti’s life and work during her periods in Mexico in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Original text in German. 32 pp – A4Published by Galerie...£3.00 -
Mexico 1910 - 1960
Hugo Brehme, Agustín Victor Casasola, Guillermo Kahlo, Nacho López, Tina Modotti Produced by the Berlin photo gallery Galerie Bilderwelt, this major retrospective of Mexican photography draws on the work of this important group of left...£5.00 -
Weegee - New York Photographs 1935 - 1950
Arthur Fellig, alias Weegee, wrote ”Somehow, the word spread that I was psychic because I always managed to have my pictures in the hand of the papers before news of the event was generally known....£5.00 -
Lewis Hine 1874 - 1940
”I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected.” – Lewis Hine Hine’s life work was done before working people became a fashionable photographic subject matter, his attitude to labour springing directly from...£5.00 -
John Pattison Gibson 1838- 1912
Gibson described himself on his notepaper as a landscape photographer but, although his name appeared in late 19th century directories as a photographer, and although he sold prints, slides, postcards and photographic materials in his...£5.00