SIGNED; Gareth McConnell - Gareth McConnell (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2004

GREAT OPPORTUNITY to purchase this fantastic PHOTOBOOK by Garreth McConnell -
in BRANDNEW CONDITION + SIGNED.

"Gareth McConnell's work is dominated by successive series of simple but highly eloquent portraits of outsider figures, survivors who have lived life to an extreme."
(from the publisher)

Gareth McConnell is a photographer who works in London. Born and educated in Northern Ireland, McConnell came to England to study further at West Surrey College of Art and Design, and the Royal College of Art, graduating from the latter in 1999. McConnell has worked for a variety of commercial clients including Universal Music, Island Records, Magic Hat, and Next Big Thing, and has worked on editorial commissions and contributions for AnOther Magazine, Numero, T Magazine, Beauty Papers, Dazed & Confused, Sleaze Nation, i-D, and more.

New, mint, unread.
Still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil.

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Steidl and Photoworks, Göttingen. 2004. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with jacket. 220 x 290 mm. 112 pages, 70 colour plates. With an essay by Simon Pooley and an interview with Gareth McConnell by Charlotte Cotton. Text in English.

Great photobook - in perfect condition.

"Born in Carrickfergus, McConnell`s own experience has been shaped by the violent tensions of Northern Ireland`s recent history and there is a strong autobiographical element in the dialogue and empathy he develops with his sitters. From his powerful portraits of loyalists in the Albert Bar in Carrickfergus to the photographs of an exotic community of young ex-pat`s in Ibiza, McConnell`s work blend`s matter-of-factness with disarming intensity. Using only natural light, his photographs celebrate the fragile momentary encounter, while transforming it into something memorable and enduring. McConnell`s monograph includes a wide range of work from 1995 to the present. Beginning with the series "Anti-Social Behaviour", looking at people who have endured punishment beatings in Northern Ireland, and including, "Portraits from the Albert Bar"; his celebrated series "Wherever You Go", portraits from the Quay Foyer young peoples` centre in Poole; "Boxers", a series of portraits from a boxing club in Bournemouth as well as the recent "Portraits from Ibiza" series. In addition the book includes several non-portrait series, including the painterly "Sectarian Murals", close-up details of murals in Belfast, and "My Grandfather`s House", an elegiac look at the contents of a house before they were sold."
(from the publisher)