Chris Steele-Perkins, The Teds

Clark, Tim (2018) Chris Steele-Perkins, The Teds. In: Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins. Prestel, London, UK. ISBN 978-3-7913-8427-6

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Abstract / Summary

Essay contribution to the official exhibition catalogue for 'Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins'. Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures and minorities of all kinds, the show featured 20 photographers from the 1950s to present day, reflecting a more diverse complex view of the world.

'Another Kind of Life' followed the lives of individuals & communities on the fringes of society from America to India, Chile to Nigeria. Driven by personal and political motivations, many of the photographers sought to provide an authentic representation of the disenfranchised communities with whom they spent months, years or even decades with, often conspiring with them to construct their own identity through the camera lens.

Featuring communities of sexual experimenters, romantic rebels, outlaws, survivalists, the economically dispossessed and those who openly flout social convention, the works present the outsider as an agent of change. From street photography to portraiture, vernacular albums to documentary reportage, the show includes the Casa Susanna Collection, Paz Errazuriz, Pieter Hugo, Mary Ellen Mark and Dayanita Singh.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	978-3-7913-8427-6
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design > Photography Communication > Journalism
Courses by Department:	The Institute of Photography
Depositing User:	Tim Clark
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2020 08:28
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 15:06
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3998

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