Byker revisited : portrait of a community
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R018059 Ned. Fotomuseum GB MON KONTTINEN.S 2009
TitleByker revisited : portrait of a community
Author
Photographer
Iconographic keywords
Place of publicationNewcastle upon Tyne
PublisherNorthumbria Press
Year of publication2009
Pagination183 p.
Illustrationscolour
Dimensions26 x 26 cm
MaterialMonografie
Document TypeBook
ISBN97819047944241904794424
Bibliographic Noteshc;
Geographical keywordNewcastle, Byker
Abstract
We cite from the COVER:
"Forty years ago Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came to Byker as a founder member of the Amber film and photography collective. Her photographs from the working class Tyneside terraced streets became an exhibition, book and film. Studied and feted across the world, the work was a celebration of the community that was demolished to make way for architect Ralph Erskine's visionary Byker Wall."
"Byker Revisited is Sirkka's return to Byker. Since 2003 she has been building a new portrait of the people and the estate - opening up the richly complex, often transient and fragile nature of contemporary urban lives and the architecture that is part of the story."
""The pathos and humour, ugliness and beauty, the casual and the formal of Byker Revisited, all conspire to reveal a world where we do not conform, where we do not have to simply be one thing, where life is complex and contradictory. That Sirkka has found this in this new book as clearly as she did in the old is why she is a brilliant artist."
"Forty years ago Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came to Byker as a founder member of the Amber film and photography collective. Her photographs from the working class Tyneside terraced streets became an exhibition, book and film. Studied and feted across the world, the work was a celebration of the community that was demolished to make way for architect Ralph Erskine's visionary Byker Wall."
"Byker Revisited is Sirkka's return to Byker. Since 2003 she has been building a new portrait of the people and the estate - opening up the richly complex, often transient and fragile nature of contemporary urban lives and the architecture that is part of the story."
""The pathos and humour, ugliness and beauty, the casual and the formal of Byker Revisited, all conspire to reveal a world where we do not conform, where we do not have to simply be one thing, where life is complex and contradictory. That Sirkka has found this in this new book as clearly as she did in the old is why she is a brilliant artist."
| Copy number | R018059 |
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| Shelf mark | GB MON KONTTINEN.S 2009 |