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Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - Byker Revisited
All copies SIGNED by the author Special offer! FREE Girl on a Spacehopper poster with every copy. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen has returned to Byker, the area of Newcastle upon Tyne that was the subject of her...£30.00 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Quayside
The idea for the ‘Newcastle-Quayside’ project emerged in 1979 in order to document Quayside and generate interest in the area, stimulating debates about its future. The changes had been radical during the 60s and even...£3.00 -
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 -
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 -
Dean Chapman - Karenni
The Karenni have been waging a war of resistance for fifty years. Burmese forces invaded the Karenni State on August 9th, 1948, and eventually annexed the independent sovereign nation. For five decades the Karenni people...£25.00