- Hardcover: 128 pages
- Publisher: Chris Boot; First Edition edition (1 July 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954281306
- ISBN-13: 978-0954281304
- Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 30.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 424,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Daily Telegraph, Preview July 13, 2002
Hinde's postcards of Butlin’s in the late 1960s and early 1970s were his brightest, most fantastic creations.
Modern Painters, Autumn 2002
Every colour is sweetly saturated, every pocket of space stuffed with a bored, delighted or drunken holiday-maker. An extraordinary document.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I agree with the previous reviews, but would also like to add how impressively technical these photographs are. The colour saturation is probably an overkill to todays preferences, but in this book it works to bring the images closer still - taking you in to the world of Butlins as it really was back then. Most of the images are taken from a high up perspective giving superb depth. The images have a genuine honesty about them. I have recently been to Butlins and was amazed that they did not sell this book there. A missed trick I think. A great book for all photographers and Butlins devotees alike.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
John Hinde's wonderful photos capture a peculiarly British phenomenon, the Butlin's vacation camp. As photographer Martin Parr says in his intro...Billy Butlin had the great idea of providing a holiday park for the working class, where they could have a good time despite the English weather. The price included everything, accommodation, food and entertainment so the camps where very popular with families, ma and pa could do what they wanted knowing that the kids, not being able to stray from the enclosed site, could play all day in safety.
The fifty-five large, pin-sharp photos in this book capture exactly the feel and ambience of the various Butlin camps around the country. They all show groups of people, indoors and out, eating, dancing (ballroom dancing was always a big draw for pensioners) swimming, relaxing or whatever. Hinde used real campers for these photos and in nearly every one, if you look closely, you can always spot one person who is looking at the camera, I bet they were told to ignore the camera and all the lights and look as if they were having a good time. As these pictures show the British relaxing on vacation there are naturally plenty of men wearing a jacket, collar and tie, on sunny days too!
I think this is a lovely book that captures, with documentary style photos, the seventies look of a unique English institution.
The fifty-five large, pin-sharp photos in this book capture exactly the feel and ambience of the various Butlin camps around the country. They all show groups of people, indoors and out, eating, dancing (ballroom dancing was always a big draw for pensioners) swimming, relaxing or whatever. Hinde used real campers for these photos and in nearly every one, if you look closely, you can always spot one person who is looking at the camera, I bet they were told to ignore the camera and all the lights and look as if they were having a good time. As these pictures show the British relaxing on vacation there are naturally plenty of men wearing a jacket, collar and tie, on sunny days too!
I think this is a lovely book that captures, with documentary style photos, the seventies look of a unique English institution.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
what a wonderful book, the images just bounce off the page at the viewer. the hairstyle are great and the colour in the picture are like those in a double rainbow. i can almost taste the beer in the beachcomber bar. i am booking my week in butlins now if it still looks like this. who needed the sun to shine, yeh
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lovely trip down memory lane
bought this book for my husband who has fond memories of butlins and he loved it, a brilliant buy for butlins lovers and for a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Published 3 months ago by dolly
Retro Butlins
Excellent for looking back to the GOOD OLD DAYS of Butlins. Too loud and commercialist now.
Published on 2 May 2010 by Mrs. Karen Johnson
hi de hi
having been a redcoat at skegness in the mid 70s,these superb photos are a fantastic
reminder of butlins camps at their peak and bring back many fond memories of that... Read more
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A childhood revisited
I was born in 1969 and lived for 19 years in Bognor Regis and occasionally visited Butlins in Bognor Regis during my childhood. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2003 by Mr. Stephen J. Rodgers
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