Lot 283: CHRIS KILLIP

CHRIS KILLIP

In Flagrante. London: Secker & Warburg, 1988.

Quarto (304 x 245mm). 43 black and white photographs. Original black cloth, spine lettered in silver, front cover lettered in blind, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket.

FIRST EDITION. A FINE COPY OF THE RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, SIGNED BY KILLIP. 'A singularly original work of art, both passionate and partisan' (The Photobook). A key book in post-war British photography, for which Killip won the Henri Cartier-Bresson prize. Rare in this condition. The Open Book, pp.340-41 (recording only the issue in wrappers); The Photobook, vol. II, p.299.

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