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Description for 20160501
Hardback. A celebrated collaboration between writer Iain Sinclair and photographer Marc Atkins, documenting the duo's peregrinations around London's back streets, canals and landmarks. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 227 x 24. Weight in Grams: 600.
Liquid City documents the collaboration between Iain Sinclair and photographer Marc Atkins and their eccentric, manic, often moving explorations of London's hidden streets, cemeteries, canals, parks, pubs and personalities. Consisting of striking, atmospheric photographs by Atkins, including many new additions, and with a new introduction by Sinclair, the book focuses on London's eastern and southeastern quadrants. An array of famous and lesser-known writers, booksellers and film-makers slip in and out of Sinclair's annotations, as do memories and remnants of the East End's criminal mobs, as well as physical landmarks as diverse as the Thames Barrier and Karl Marx's grave in ... Read more
Liquid City documents the collaboration between Iain Sinclair and photographer Marc Atkins and their eccentric, manic, often moving explorations of London's hidden streets, cemeteries, canals, parks, pubs and personalities. Consisting of striking, atmospheric photographs by Atkins, including many new additions, and with a new introduction by Sinclair, the book focuses on London's eastern and southeastern quadrants. An array of famous and lesser-known writers, booksellers and film-makers slip in and out of Sinclair's annotations, as do memories and remnants of the East End's criminal mobs, as well as physical landmarks as diverse as the Thames Barrier and Karl Marx's grave in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liquid City
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780235837
SKU
V9781780235837
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Ref
99-15
About Hardback
Marc Atkins is a freelance photographer whose work has been exhibited across Europe and North America, and published in books and magazines worldwide. Iain Sinclair is known for his 'dense, impressionistic, psychogeographical formulations' of London in books such as London Overground: A Day's Walk around the Ginger Line (2015), and London Orbital (2002).
Reviews for 20160501
stunning photographs ... Atkins's use of eye, paper and chemicals is an alchemical homage to the mystery of light and dark' - Jah Wobble, Independent on Sunday Liquid City is ... Alice in Wonderland for urban intellectuals, a book that just gets curiouser and curiouser. Which is what makes it so particular, of course, and so utterly alluring.' - Melanie ... Read more