{"product_id":"on-strange-and-familiar-ground","title":"On Strange and Familiar Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn Strange and Familiar Ground introduces a new audience to the work that brought Peter Mitchell recognition in the 21st century. The book remasters the 47 photographs Martin Parr originally selected for Strangely Familiar, Nazraeli's long out-of-print monograph, and adds new images and recent discoveries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1970s, Mitchell drove a delivery truck around Leeds and photographed the city between drops. He photographed shopkeepers in their doorways, factory gates, cafés, scrapyards, and terraced streets halfway to demolition. He worked slowly, with a medium-format camera and a stepladder, and his subjects posed willingly. The pictures are of affection for a city on the edge of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leeds is a city in the North where I've ended up and it's now where I'm from. … I'm surprised (though I shouldn't be) as I go through the neg files and notebooks just how familiar all the people and places are. All gone now … but as I stride down the new canyons of glittering emptiness that litter our cities, I hear my photographs chattering away.\" Peter Mitchell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work was first shown in 1979 at Impressions Gallery in York, in the first colour exhibition by a British photographer at a British photography gallery. As Martin Parr writes in his introduction, the show was \"so far ahead of its time that no-one knew exactly what to say or how to react, apart from with total bewilderment.\" It took decades for the work to receive its due.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition was newly scanned and remastered from Mitchell's archive. It keeps Parr's original introduction and sets the familiar images alongside photographs that have rarely or never been seen before.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strangely Familiar","offers":[{"title":"First Edition","offer_id":55227377582417,"sku":"0201015010701","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Special Edition","offer_id":55227377615185,"sku":"0201015010702","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/1673\/0193\/files\/Cover_Mock_ce71a747-91c7-4bf2-a98f-3f6fb1d317d3.png?v=1791473380","url":"https:\/\/rrbphotobooks.com\/products\/on-strange-and-familiar-ground","provider":"RRB Photobooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}