A HISTORY OF THE EAST END by Chris Dorley-Brown
| Title | A History of the East End |
| Author(s)/Editor(s) | Chris Dorsey-Brown |
| Publisher | Nouveau Palais éditions |
| Pages | 152 |
| Dimensions |
185 x 295 mm |
| Format | Softcover |
| Year | 2024 |
Chris Dorley Brown has been documenting London’s East End all his working life. A History of the East End by French publisher Nouveau Palais is the photographer’s first monograph and provides a retrospective of the photographer’s career to date.
Chris Dorley Brown is a self-taught British documentary photographer. His creative education was born in East London in the late 1970s, against a backdrop of highly polarized political conflict and change.
The photographs presented in this monograph were taken between 1984 and 2023. The book takes us on a journey through the many boroughs of the East End, like taking a stroll through the decades and spaces. Starting on the banks of the Thames, we discover the vernacular architecture of the 1980s; their demolition a few years later; followed by the contemporary architecture that has replaced it. We follow the transformations brought about by construction for the 2012 Olympic Games and how it transformed an entire area of Hackney. There are the deserted streets of the City during lockdown; ending on the banks of the Thames, almost at its mouth.
A series of essays and texts are included in the book, within these Dorley Brown recounts his career with a certain ease and skillful style of writing. His depictions of the East End are witty, highly visual drawing on the sights, sounds, cultural pinpoints of the area, touching on gentrification, social history as well as personal recollections including one in which he is treated for eye problems by Bashar al-Assad.
This format of the book allows the reader to enjoy the photographs, whilst unfolding the history of the East End. It is also, and above all, a depiction of how capitalism and development took on new forms as it spreadthrough the area.
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Title
A History of the East End
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Author / Editor
Chris Dorley-Brown
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Publisher
Nouveau Palais Éditions
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Pages
152
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Dimensions
185 x 295mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2024
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