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The Red River

Documentary Classics

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Sale price£28.00 Regular price£35.00
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RRB Photobooks, November 2024
Trade Edition Softcover and Special Edition Cloth Hardcover
30 x 24 cm
96 pages
Revised Edition
Including Special Edition Hardback of 250 copies

ISBN: 9781738516360

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£28 | £75 Special Edition
All pre-ordered copies will be signed


RRP: £35 | £95 Special Edition
Fortescue Shaft, The Great Flat Lode, Brea
10x8" Pigment print, printed by Jem Southam, signed and limited to 250

RRB Photobooks is proud to present this revised edition of Jem Southam's iconic 1989 publication the Red River. The book contains 50 remastered images and revised texts, with a new afterword by Southam.

A hardcover Special Edition of 250 copies is also available, containing a signed and limited 10x8" pigment print of Fortescue Shaft, The Great Flat Lode, Brea, printed by Jem Southam. Each print is signed and numbered in a limited edition of 250.

The granite spine of Cornwall acts as a watershed from which many rivers and streams flow north and south into the Atlantic and English Channel respectively. The Red River rises east of Troon and flows just six or seven miles, north then west, into the sea between Gwithian and Godrevy...

It is the purpose of this book to describe and evoke something of the distinct, rich history and culture of the valley. The work is divided into seven parts. These bear no relation to
any geographic, social or cultural divisions along the river but rather serve as a structure for realising a further ambition within the work – to reflect on a succession of myths concerning the history of our perception of the landscape which surround us.

- Jem Southam in the Red River