Read For Free Derek Ridgers: 78-87 London Youth Fashioned By John Maybury Ready In Hardcover

I was not in London during this period, these photographs really brought back the scenes the ones I knew directly as well as the ones shown here.
The photos spontaneous club and street shots, some in color, most BampW have minimal identification through a thumbnail key

at the end, but that's not really a detraction.
And thepage introductory text by John Maybury is really good, really evocative, If you didn't live through this period, this book probably won't help you to understand but if you did, it'll bring it back.
Excellent book of the period, Necessary for any collector. Absolutely perfect. Fantastic photography of the London Youth! I can only daydream of experiencing such thing, . . Taken in the streets, clubs, basements and bars of London betweenand, the photographs in "London Youth" celebrate the many mutations in London's youth culture from the height of punk to the birth of Acid House.
British photographer Derek Ridgers has documented the perennial youth ritual of dressing up and going out since he first picked up a camera in, and has been drawn to virtually every subculture London has spawned, from punk to the fetish club scene of the present.
From early on his photographs attracted the attention of both cultural institutions such as London's ICA and music and style publications such as the "NME" and "The Face.
" These photographs, made over a tenyear span, capture punk's evolution into goth, the skinhead revival and the New Romantic scene, and the eventual emergence of Acid House and the new psychedelia.
Gathered here, Ridgers' images serve not only as a fascinating document of UK style and culture but as a testament to the creative spirit of youth he lauds his subjects and their sartorial DIY panache.

Derek Ridgers bornis an English photographer with a career spanning more thanyears, He is best known for his photography of music, film, club and street culture, and has photographed from James Brown to The Spice Girls, from Clint Eastwood to Johnny Depp, as well politicians, gangsters, artists, writers, fashion designers and sportsmen.
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