{"product_id":"northern-exposures-a-magnum-photographers-portrait-of-rural-life-9781904794202","title":"Northern Exposures: A Magnum Photographer's Portrait of Rural Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Chris Steele-Perkins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Northumbria University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Northumbria University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Regional Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning to the North East in 2001 to document the Durham Coalfield, at one time the heartland of the British coal industry, Chris Steele-Perkins found himself in that ex-urban culture that we now associate with \"Billy Elliot\". This world of \"lamping\" (for rabbits), ferreting, whippet racing, grouse shooting, pigeon fancying and the rearing of birds of prey is a survival of what D. H. Lawrence once described as \"a curious cross between industrialism and the old agricultural England of Shakespeare and Milton\". Chris Steele-Perkins has memorably recorded this with visual wit, and a constant eye for the extraordinary. Nor is he at all sentimental: the harsh realities of blood-stained slaughter-houses and the vandalism of fly-tipping in the open countryside aren't excluded. His photographs, he says, \"serve as both eulogy and elegy\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Northumbria University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47605321498775,"sku":"9781904794202","price":1026.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781904794202.webp?v=1775025798","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/northern-exposures-a-magnum-photographers-portrait-of-rural-life-9781904794202","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}