Moscow 1974
Brian Griffin
Cafe Royal Books
English
Edited by Craig Atkinson
Softcover
Edition of 250
36 pages
140 × 200 mm
2018
ISBN: Not Available
About the Artist
Brian Griffin is a London based freelance photographer. He was awarded the Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991. In 1989 the Guardian newspaper proclaimed him to be “The Photographer Of The Decade”. Also “Life” magazine used the photograph “A Broken Frame” on its front cover of a special supplement “The Greatest Photographs Of The 80’s”. In 2009 He became the patron of the Derby Festival of Photography and continues to be the Festivals patron, and in 2009 he launched the photography project “Road To 2012” at the National Portrait Gallery for the London Olympics. He received the “Centenary Medal” from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography in 2013, and recently he has been commissioned and exhibited at “Marseille Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture”, the New Birmingham Library and in Bologna.
(source: http://briangriffin.co.uk/about/about)
About the Publisher
Café Royal Books (founded 2005) is an independent publisher based in Southport, England. Originally set up as a way to disseminate art, in multiple, affordably, quickly, and internationally while not relying on ‘the gallery’. Café Royal Books publishes artist’s books and zines as well as a weekly series of photobook/zines. The photographic publications are part of a long ongoing series, generally working with photographers and their archives, to publish work, which usually falls into 1970–2000 UK documentary / reportage.
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