Shirley Baker : women and children ; and loitering men
Shirley Baker (Artist), Griselda Pollock (Author), Jackie Kay (Author), Anna Douglas (Curator), Brett Rogers (Writer of preface), Photographers' Gallery (Host institution)
Published to coincide with an exhibition at The Photographers Gallery, the book focuses on a formative period of Shirley Baker's practice. It features many previously unseen photographs, in particular her startling colour work from Summer 1965 sequenced as an unfolding visual narrative. A foreword by Professor Griselda Pollock, and an original short story by author Jackie Kay offer a contemporary reading of the quiet drama of Baker's photographs and serves to underline the photographer's principal significance as a compassionate as well as a humorous teller of stories that make visible the spectrum of human resilience
Print Book, English, 2015
Photographers' Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2015