Chris Killip Dies

[RoyReed]

Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, dies aged 74

Influential artist, hailed by Martin Parr as a ‘key player’ in British photography, captured human dignity amid industrial decline in England’s north-east

amp.theguardian.com

I met him once very briefly at the Side Gallery in Newcastle in 1976 (iirc). Great photographer.

 

[Chilli.s]

RIP





Shows what the 70's looked like. I look at his photos with nostalgia and affection.

 

[Edie]

Wow I’ve been looking at Mr Killip’s photographs and am absolutely blown away by them. Few things in particular. The absolute poverty of the North East. The immense scale of the ship building. The way the late 1970s/ early 1880s looks like a different world, an utterly different way of life. I just do not recognise this Britain, yet it was when I was born. These people look like they exist in a Lowry painting, or that George Orwell is walking among them. The world has changed. I’d love to see an exhibition of his work or look at a book. I can’t go this weekend but next weekend I might go to the city library and see if they have a book. Awesome stuff.

 

[Chilli.s]

They do show a change, one that was just taken as a part of life for me, a child then adolescent in the 70's. I used to go and visit my Grandma in Newcastle and remember watching demolition of old houses near her's. These two pictures demonstrate the decline of industry and what it supported so well.

 

[neonwilderness]

If anyone happens to be in Newcastle some of his photos are on display in the Laing Art Gallery.

I don’t want to hijack the thread, but have a look at Jimmy Forsyth and Tish Martha too.

 

[RoyReed]

I don’t want to hijack the thread, but have a look at Jimmy Forsyth and Tish Martha too.

And Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Graham Smith as well - all (including Chris) were members of the Side Gallery and Amber Film & Photography Collective.

 

[petee]

I don’t want to hijack the thread, but have a look at Jimmy Forsyth and Tish Martha too.

i live an ocean away and don;t know much but i did save some of this guy's stuff because i love it.

Iconic Photographs of Tanker "Tyne Pride", Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Tyneside, by Peter Loud

Photographs of

www.peterloud.co.uk

 

[Edie]

i live an ocean away and don;t know much but i did save some of this guy's stuff because i love it.

Iconic Photographs of Tanker "Tyne Pride", Swan Hunter, Wallsend, Tyneside, by Peter Loud

Photographs of

www.peterloud.co.uk

The scale of it, the way the ship looms over and dominates the small regular houses is mad.

 

[petee]

The scale of it, the way the ship looms over and dominates the small regular houses is mad.

and it was your first picture above that i thought i'd seen before (but hadn't).

 

[neonwilderness]

I went for a walk round there a while back. The ship yard (Swan Hunter) is still there although it's much scaled back now. They don't build ships there any more, so it's impossible to imagine the scale of those old photos with the massive ship at the end of the street.

 

[Orang Utan]

I borrowed his greatest hits album from the library and now I don’t want to return it.
Incredible images that you want to return to again and again. So now that’s two genius photographers I’ve belatedly discovered recently - Killip & Tish Murtha. Must be something in the water up in Tyneside.
I’m a dilettante when it comes to art and photography - what other photographers should I be aware of?

 

[Orang Utan]

(Oops, shoulda read the other posts on this thread and spotted those recommendations )

 

[neonwilderness]

(Oops, shoulda read the other posts on this thread and spotted those recommendations )

Have a look at Don McCullin's stuff if you haven't already (there's a good film about his work too), it's mentioned in the film that he was an inspiration for her work.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fans of Killip, Murtha, Parr, Bolloten etc might be interested in this upcoming retrospective, at Leeds Art Gallery, of Peter Mitchell, a photographer who did much of his work in Leeds in the 70s and 80s. He's probably best known for his photos of the infamous Quarry Hill estate - a vast place beloved by its residents but condemned and knocked down by the authorities.

Nothing Lasts Forever: Peter Mitchell - Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds Art Gallery is thrilled to present a major retrospective of British documentary photographer Peter Mitchell.

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk