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Mar 30, 2024 · Newly reissued, Richard Billingham’s pictures of his alcoholic father Ray have lost none of their power to provoke strong emotions.
There is something regal about this image of artist and photographer Richard Billingham’s mother Liz reclining on the sofa in her Black Country flat. She is a powerful presence across Ray’s a Laugh, a collection of Billingham’s photographs, first published in 1996 and recently reissued by MACK.
Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) [1] is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere.
Aug 22, 2007 · Artist Richard Billingham didn't care about how his family ought to look when he turned his gaze on them and their situation at the heart of working class life in Thatcher's Britain.
Richard Billingham’s story is an oddity in the history of British art. Having been ‘discovered’ as a painting student at Sunderland University, he rapidly went on to become one of the only household names in British photography and to become recognized, nationally and internationally, as an important artist.
Jun 15, 2022 · Richard Billingham created three unique sets of images for the Zoo project: a sequence of video works, medium format studies, and a collection of photographs based on his mother’s zoo animal images.
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He is widely known for his series of frank and poignant photographs of his parents and brother taken from 1990, that culminated in the publication of the book Ray’s a Laugh and inclusion in the...
