{"product_id":"the-brooks-press-of-wirksworth-by-chris-brooks","title":"THE BROOKS PRESS OF WIRKSWORTH by Chris Brooks","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003ePublished by The Brooks Press (Est. 1898)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis, the first publication by photographer Chris Brooks, revives and re-imagines his own family's publishing house, The Brooks Press, some forty years after its closure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFor almost ten years Brooks has been returning to his childhood home in Derbyshire to photograph the land and research the story of his family's printing press, a business which he knew very little about due to the death of his father when he was a teenager.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAn imprint founded in 1898 by his great grandfather, F.W. Brooks, The Brooks Press published a wide range of material from travel guides and poetry to books on self-improvement. It finally closed its doors in the early 1970s, having passed from father to son for three generations, winding up just before Brooks was born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBy employing a mixture of exquisitely composed, atmospheric, large format colour portraits and landscapes combined with archival fragments and pages of letterpress, Chris Brooks examines the pull of history and the complicated nature of belonging and family. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBy doing so, he draws our attention to the constantly changing meaning of what it is to be 'in' and 'of' England. The Brooks Press of Wirksworth is thus a timely meditation on changing notions of nationhood, identity and the power of place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Brooks Press of Wirksworth\u003c\/i\u003e, the publication that relaunches The Brooks Press, is available to purchase as a trade edition, special edition and as a collectors edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDesign By Modern Activity\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Self-published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58851237495168,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/4524\/8002\/files\/brookspressfrontcover.jpg?v=1788440138","url":"https:\/\/londonbookarts.org\/products\/the-brooks-press-of-wirksworth-by-chris-brooks","provider":"London Centre for Book Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}