Tom Wood - People - 1999

Hardcover. Blue paper-covered boards, with title stamped in white on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Tom Wood. Edited by Thomas Zander and Jürgen Kisters. Foreword by Lewis Biggs. Essays (in German and English) by Jürgen Kisters, Klaus Honnef and Hubertus von Amelunxen. Afterword by Mark Holborn. Includes a list of plates, biography and exhibition history. 104 pp., with 37 four-color and 26 black-and-white plates, beautifully printed by Druck and Verlagshaus Wienand GmbH, Köln, from separations by IMS Integrated Media Solutions GmbH, Köln. 13 x 9-7/8 inches. This first printing was limited to 1500 copies. Out of print. Very scarce. Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: "With unswerving concentration, he finds moments of a magical and forceful beauty in everyday life, even at its shabbiest. And he takes portraits of a rare clarity and discernment. Unremittingly, resolutely, and with a unique feeling for the aesthetic acumen of moments of intense humanity, he has produced a phenomenal oeuvre, of which this book presents a representative cross-section.

Published in 1999, People is a classic photobook by the renowned street photographer Tom Wood that captures the authentic, everyday lives of ordinary people in Liverpool.

Released in 1999 by the publisher Wienand Verlag in Cologne, Germany. It was edited by Thomas Zander and Jürgen Kisters, with essays from writers like Jürgen Kisters, Klaus Honnef, and Hubertus von Amelunxen.

Wood spent nearly three decades photographing the neighborhoods, pubs, bus stops, and streets of Merseyside and Liverpool. People focuses heavily on portraits of individuals, couples, workers, and families.

Wood's lens avoids commercial advertising aesthetics or cold detachment. Instead, his pictures show an intimate, raw, and tender connection to his subjects, treating everyday strangers with the same deep respect and dignity as his own friends and family.

The book acts as a visual window into a working-class city, stripping away the superficial layers or clichés often placed on urban life by mainstream media.