- Mack Books 2024
- Hardback, 1st Mack edition, 320p
- Imperfect see below
First published in 1996 to enormous acclaim, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century, as well as a cornerstone work of the Young British Artists generation. Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham’s often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham’s training as a painter: it constitutes a ‘director’s cut’ and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era.
This signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover.
Small bump to one corner of cover - see photo example - pages inside are unaffected and this is otherwise a sealed copy of the signed slip edition of this book.
