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The Close Season (Hardcover)

by Ken Grant (Author), James Kelman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 104 pages
  • Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing (1 April 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1899235043
  • ISBN-13: 978-1899235049
  • Product Dimensions: 30.6 x 24.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 766,897 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"No hidden agendas, no exploitation, just a short cut to knowing what it was like to be there. - Martin Parr Ken Grant's photographs of friendship, family, the mundane values of family life, are an intimate sort of photography, not so much recording as remembering, a savouring of all those past shared moments. - Chris Killip

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Rooted in autobiography, Grant's work covers a fifteen year period. It focuses on the part of Merseyside where he was brought up and still lives. There is little industry, work is often casual and infrequent and their are few guarantees for the future. These are lives that are improvised and uncertain and in The Close Season he looks at how this disaffected and dislocated community responds to the limited horizons of its world.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Close Season, 5 Jan 2004
Ken Grant is one of the leading lights at the Documentary Photography course in Newport, Gwent; and in this book presents a series of pictures, made over a fifteen year period and rooted in autobiography, centred upon people who worked in the disappearing world of the Liverpool river-trades.

None of these details appear in the book and instead of adding captions of his own Grant offers an essay by 1994 Booker Prize winning author James Kelman. The images themselves are presented raw and unadorned, to some extent like the lives into which they offer brief glimpses. Style seems influenced by the eighties New British Documentary tradition but isn’t particularly tied to the genre: the presentation of documentary has moved on. The obviously working class community into which the book peers seems in one sense closely bound together, yet rifts and fractures are highlighted by the sequencing of the images. Nostalgia also sneaks in, partly due to the black and white; and the gender divide seems as wide as ever. And it’s in the women that these elegiac images find their undoubted strength. As I look again at The Close Season I find myself wondering what phoenixes may have arisen from this community robbed of its livelihood on Liverpool’s river by the changing times: wondering what the future held for the just married Tracy or the downtrodden Doddy arguing in the Derry Club. I’m kind of curious to see what Mr Grant produces next.

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