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When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth in January 1976, I recognized the industry above it but nothing else I was seeing. The beach beneath me was full of activity with horses and carts backed into the sea. Men were standing in the sea next to the carts, using small wire nets attached to poles to fish out the coal from the water beneath them. The place confounded time; here the Middle Ages and the twentieth century intertwined. Chris Killip began photographing the people of Lynemouth seacoal beach in the north east of England in 1982, after nearly seven years of failed efforts to obtain their consent. During 1983 to 1984 he lived in a caravan on the seacoal camp, and documented the life, work and the struggle to survive on the beach, using his unflinching style of objective documentation. Fifty, of the one hundred and twenty four images published here, were first shown in 1984 at the Side Gallery in Newcastle and others were an important element of Killips ground-breaking and legendary book In Flagrante, published four years later. Chris Killip, born on the Isle of Man in 1946, is a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. His works are held in the permanent collections of, among others: Museum of Modern Art, New York; George Eastman House; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. His books include In Flagrante (1988), Pirelli Work (2007), and Here Comes Everybody (2009).
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Killip's work is confrontational, at times dark, and always challenging. The bleak landscape of the North East of England becomes an extension of its human subjects, underscoring the harshness of their lives.
Seacoal is about a tightly-knit community of families who scavenged the beaches at Lynemouth for coal that washed ashore from dumped mine tailings. The people worked in an uneasy, semi-legal relationship to the mine and property owners and the local authorities, and were suspicious of outsiders and meddlers.
Killip is intrusive, an `outsider' looking in, and his terse introduction tells a gripping story in only three pages of his repeated attempts to photograph at the beach as part of his documentary project of the Newcastle area, only to be attacked and run off each time, and how he finally confronted the men in their local pub and managed, with the help of one man who had encountered him before, to gain their trust and acceptance.
The photographs are provocative, the narrative compelling.
Seacoal is about a tightly-knit community of families who scavenged the beaches at Lynemouth for coal that washed ashore from dumped mine tailings. The people worked in an uneasy, semi-legal relationship to the mine and property owners and the local authorities, and were suspicious of outsiders and meddlers.
Killip is intrusive, an `outsider' looking in, and his terse introduction tells a gripping story in only three pages of his repeated attempts to photograph at the beach as part of his documentary project of the Newcastle area, only to be attacked and run off each time, and how he finally confronted the men in their local pub and managed, with the help of one man who had encountered him before, to gain their trust and acceptance.
The photographs are provocative, the narrative compelling.
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The book had been damaged, in the right corner, at the bottom of the pages. I do not know if it was before beeing sent or during the transport, but it was a deception.
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