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Pictures from the Real World

by David Moore

Photographs: David Moore

Text: David Chandler

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Here Press

32 pages

Pictures: 18 colour plates

Year: 2013

ISBN: 978-1-907893-33-9

Comments: Limited Edition of 500 copies, 270mm x 210mm

David Moore’s Pictures from the Real World was the forerunner of much that followed in British photographic history, yet the first and only showing of the photographs was in 1988 when they were selected by Martin Parr for a special edition of the magazine, Creative Camera.

The series is a powerful collection of colour documentary photographs of families on a council estate in Moore’s home city of Derby, UK, made between 1987 and 1988. At the time, few serious documentary photographers were working in colour and Moore’s choice was in many ways a rebellion against the prevalent aesthetic. It was also a crtical response to the new political and social realities imposed by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government from 1979. As David Chandler comments in a new essay commissioned for the book; 'Pictures from the Real World’ presents working class life as a strange blend of physical mayhem and inertia, the abrasive square frames of Moore’s camera cut into bodies and objects, much as the rooms themselves seem to struggle to contain them’.

Published as a limited edition of 500 copies the book is a unique collaboration between Dewi Lewis Publishing and London based, Here Press. The work retains a visceral energy 25 years after the event and documents a very particular time in British social and photographic history. One might also argue that the subsistence level living encountered connects the content of the work to current times.

David Moore has published several books and exhibited widely. His first solo exhibition, The Velvet Arena, was shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1994 and was also published as a book. His last book The Last Things (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008) documented a never before photographed, government bunker in central London. David Moore is currently senior academic on the MA Photography at Central Saint Martins, London.

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Pictures from the Real World

by David Moore

Photographs: David Moore

Text: David Chandler

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Here Press

32 pages

Pictures: 18 colour plates

Year: 2013

ISBN: 978-1-907893-33-9

Comments: Limited Edition of 500 copies, 270mm x 210mm

David Moore’s Pictures from the Real World was the forerunner of much that followed in British photographic history, yet the first and only showing of the photographs was in 1988 when they were selected by Martin Parr for a special edition of the magazine, Creative Camera.

The series is a powerful collection of colour documentary photographs of families on a council estate in Moore’s home city of Derby, UK, made between 1987 and 1988. At the time, few serious documentary photographers were working in colour and Moore’s choice was in many ways a rebellion against the prevalent aesthetic. It was also a crtical response to the new political and social realities imposed by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government from 1979. As David Chandler comments in a new essay commissioned for the book; 'Pictures from the Real World’ presents working class life as a strange blend of physical mayhem and inertia, the abrasive square frames of Moore’s camera cut into bodies and objects, much as the rooms themselves seem to struggle to contain them’.

Published as a limited edition of 500 copies the book is a unique collaboration between Dewi Lewis Publishing and London based, Here Press. The work retains a visceral energy 25 years after the event and documents a very particular time in British social and photographic history. One might also argue that the subsistence level living encountered connects the content of the work to current times.

David Moore has published several books and exhibited widely. His first solo exhibition, The Velvet Arena, was shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London in 1994 and was also published as a book. His last book The Last Things (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2008) documented a never before photographed, government bunker in central London. David Moore is currently senior academic on the MA Photography at Central Saint Martins, London.

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