Vintage 80s: London Street Photography - Softcover

Stiletto, Johnny

3.83

23 ratings by Goodreads

9780711232518: Vintage 80s: London Street Photography

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0711232512 ISBN 13: 9780711232518

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2011

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

'No other city has the variety of hairstyles male and female that parade the streets of London. The bouffant, the duck arse, the white wings of power swept over the ears, the coxcomb punk, the flat top, the social outrider's bowl cut. They're all there to make a place. In respect of the hair of the 80s, the rest of the world was dead from the neck up.'

Buy a 35mm camera at the beginning of 1980 and spend the next 10 years walking around London taking half a roll of black and white a day and photograph whatever happens in front of you.

You get Mick Jagger, New Romantics, Ra Ra skirts, Boy George, Sloane Rangers.
The beginning of Covent Garden, Yuppies, The IRA bombings, the Iranian Embassy siege.
100s of newspaper flyers John Lennon Shot Dead - Margaret Thatcher’s London, Fashions that came and went.

Here are 160 unique street photographs of London when it was the style, musical, political and fashion capital of the world.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Johnny Stiletto. Well known for his intimate, socially revealing black and white street shots. A collection of his photographs is in the Tate Gallery, London. His TV work includes documentaries and commercials. Stiletto's photograph of Francis Bacon on the London Underground was reputedly Bacon's favourite photograph of himself.

Review:

Johnny Stiletto has a wonderful body of candid street photography work, much of it shot in London during the 1980s. Some iconic moments are captured here; flickering glimpses from a turbulent time in our history.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.