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Ray's a Laugh

Billingham, Richard

Code: 3915

ISBN: 9781915743329

Publisher: Mack

New Hardcover First Edition, Signed by the photographer

Price: £95

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Signed by the Photographer, This signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.

First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation. Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham’s often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham’s training as a painter: it constitutes a ‘director’s cut’ and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era.

The publication of this new edition is accompanied by Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader, edited by Liz Jobey, which traces the book’s compelling history from Billingham’s ‘discovery’ at Sunderland University, through his Turner Prize nomination, to the present reworked edition.

Embossed linen hardcover 23.4 x 31cm, 320 pages

ISBN 978-1-915743-32-9