Living Room by Nick Waplington, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Seminal British documentary photography book in good condition overall. First (1st) edition book with slight discolouration to edge of front cover - does not affect contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Aperture Foundation, Inc, New York. 1991. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 50 Color Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with vignette present to the front board and titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Nick Waplington is a major new discovery in the world of photography. For his first book, this prize-winning young artist has produced a documentary "sitcom" celebrating the working-class family, offering lushly colored glimpses of "the communal spirit." ; 0.57 x 12.77 x 9.85 Inches; 1 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Nick Waplington. Essays by John Berger and Richard Avedon. By the late 1980s England had experienced ten years of Conservative government, the collapse of industry, the rise in poverty and unemployment, and centralized government s abandonment of people and place. It is in this context that British photographer Nick Waplington spent four years documenting the daily lives of two working-class families on a council estate in Nottingham, England. Rather than embracing the contemporary photographic conventions of social realism, Waplington chronicled the lives of these families in saturated color, capturing an intimate narrative with poignancy and an unexpected humour. Signed by Author(s).

VG bright tight copy in publishers cloth in like very slightly rubbed dustjacket. oblong 4to. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0893814814.

First edition; (242 x 318 mm, 9½ x 12½ in); colour photographs, design by Tibor Kalman; endpapers printed tan one side only, orange cloth-covered boards, orange linen spine stamped in silver, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, publisher's reply card laid in, remainder mark, a fine unread copy; [72]pp. Nick Waplington spent four years photographing two families on a housing estate in Nottingham. His relationship with his subjects is clearly one of comfort and affection. In his essay, Richard Avedon, an early champion of Waplington's work, writes, 'The photographer's triumph is to bring order out of chaos, without betraying the chaos. Waplington presents the violence in affection, the sexuality in innocence, a chill at the electric hearth, all in a new vocabulary, without romance, all in the same room at the same time.' The Open Book pp354-5.