Untitled
1990 · Gelatin silver print
19 5/16 × 22 7/8" (49.1 × 58.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Chris Killip
1946
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Chris Killip was a British photographer whose black-and-white work documented the social and economic decline of post-industrial Britain from the 1970s onward. Working primarily in the North East of England, he sustained long-term engagement with working-class communities and landscapes shaped by deindustrialization. His formal control of tone and composition elevated social documentation into a rigorous visual practice, treating economic collapse as a subject demanding sustained formal attention rather than journalistic urgency.
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