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Around eighty photographers capture over a century of the British seaside in all its raucous, joyful and sometimes seedy glory.

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'Surveys over a century of iconic and humorous holiday experiences and trips to the beach' - Aesthetica
'Features a unique and engaging cast, both behind and in front of the lens, from the 1850s and into the 21st century' - HUCK
'Jam-packed with holiday snaps, shoreline street photography and alluring tourism material' - Elephant

Table of Contents

Introduction • Waves on the Beach • Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties • Seaside Bohemias • Reporting Back • Halcyon Days • Road Trips • Who’s Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now • Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel • Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century • Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties

Seaside Photographed

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    A Hardback by Professor Val Williams, Karen Shepherdson

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      Publisher Thames & Hudson
      Published 23 May 2019
      ISBN-13 9780500022061
      978-0500022061
      ISBN-10 0500022062
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      The Arts

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Around eighty photographers capture over a century of the British seaside in all its raucous, joyful and sometimes seedy glory.

      Trade Review

      'Surveys over a century of iconic and humorous holiday experiences and trips to the beach' - Aesthetica
      'Features a unique and engaging cast, both behind and in front of the lens, from the 1850s and into the 21st century' - HUCK
      'Jam-packed with holiday snaps, shoreline street photography and alluring tourism material' - Elephant

      Table of Contents

      Introduction • Waves on the Beach • Shell Stories: Editing the Seaside from the Thirties to the Eighties • Seaside Bohemias • Reporting Back • Halcyon Days • Road Trips • Who’s Looking at the Family? Seaside Chronicles from Then until Now • Worlds in a Small Room: The Seaside Hotel • Gazing Up Close and from a Distance: Performing Studio Portraiture in the 21st Century • Undercurrents: Revising the Seaside from the Sixties to the Nineties

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