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Konttinen, Sirkka-Liisa.
Step by Step.
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne;
Date of Publication: 1989
Stock Code: 14838
First edition. Softcover landscape quarto, pp. 127. Monochrome photographic frontispiece and further photographs throughout. Publisher’s pictorial soft card wraps. Upper cover lightly marked with barely visible stain residue, with a tiny dog ear to bottom right corner. No annotations or inscriptions; very good condition. Step by Step is a photographic chronicle of mothers and daughters from a North Shields’ dancing school, followed over seven years, with stories of their lives from inside and outside the world of dance. 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”. £65.00