Chris Wiley on the newly reissued photography book “Ray’s a Laugh,” by Richard Billingham.
Now considered a classic, “Ray’s a Laugh” has been newly reissued, in an expanded form, by Mack, and from today’s vantage it looks just as bracing and uncompromising as it did when it was originally released—and perhaps even more relevant in the post-Brexit era of increasingly intractable inequality. Billingham, the first in his family to go to college, began taking photographs of his father as studies for paintings during art school.
” Almost certainly, some of the fracas attending “Ray’s a Laugh” was provoked by the fact that his work was initially shown in a splashy contemporary-art context, alongside British provocateurs such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. Had his images instead been slotted into a lineage of photojournalistic documentation of the British working class, like the work of, say, Chris Killip, the story might have been different.
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