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Konttinen, Sirkka-Liisa.
Writing in the Sand.
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport;
Date of Publication: 2000
Stock Code: 11827
FIRST EDITION. Landscape quarto, pp., 120 monochrome photographs throughout. Publisher’s white cloth with title and author blind stamped upper board, black titles to spine, in an unclipped, gold pictorial dust-jacket. Top edge of dust-jacket a little creased, with a small 1cm tear to upper panel. Finnish born photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was a founding member of the celebrated Amber Film and Photography Collective, and her critically acclaimed work documents the everyday lives of working class communities across the North East. Her photographs have been inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World as being of ‘outstanding national value and importance to the United Kingdom”. This collection celebrates the joy and energy of beach life in Tyne and Wear and beyond.
£65.00