Chris Steele-Perkins is the ex-president of Magnum in New York and an award-winning photographer. This is his amazing collection of photographs and interviews with centenarians celebrating longevity with style.

Fading Light: portraits of centenarians

Steele-Perkins, Chris

Parenting & Relationships

McNidder and Grace

Who are the English? And what images spring to mind when you think of the English and England?Ask a tourist and they would probably say Big Ben, English 'bobbies', black taxi cabs and the late Queen and royal family. Ask a Scot, Welshmen or Irishman and you may get a different answer. However, ask an Englishman (or woman) and you will probably get more intimate answers... mowing the lawn, going down the pub or maybe braving the beach on a frigid summer's day. Ask Chris Steele-Perkins, an internationally acclaimed and award-winning Magnum photographer of over 50 years, and he'll have a multitude of answers all captured through his lens.In this new edition of his wonderful photobook, Chris presents a sweeping, unique record of what he thinks makes England truly English. From Sunday cricket matches to snoozes in a deckchair, intimate family portraits to carefree children at play, circus shows with performing bears to the wilder performers of a street carnival, and from Saturday night dancing to race riots. Each picture tells a story of time and place and many of the images in this collection will strike a chord or a memory in the viewer. These natural and authentic photographs are a personal selection of the best and most important of Chris' photographs that he has taken over 40 years of photographing in England. Some are drawn from books he has made on English themes, others from stories he has worked on, others from pictures of family and friends, from random events encountered. This book is an honest testament to this odd but magnificent country that is England, the England of the people.

England, My England: A Magnum Photographer's Portrait

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

England is a strange place-- funny, complex and sad. Distance yourself from it, experience other cultures-- then look again. That strangeness becomes almost overwhelming.This is a powerful and perceptive view of England in the eighties. Using ideas of 'pleasure,' Chis Steele-Perkins explores a public, ritual face that cuts across class and location. What we see is not only familiar it is also frequently disturbing.

The Pleasure Principle

Photography & Video

Aperture

Fuji as seen by Chris Steele-Perkins emerges as a meditation about modern Japan and Japanese life. The exquisite images offer a fresh and surprising view of Japan’s iconic mountain and an understanding of Japanese worldview as seen by an outsider who has penetrated its diversity with astounding clarity, metaphysical insight, and profound complicity.

Fuji

Travel

Umbrage Editions

"Afghanistan" is introduced by the French essayist and traveller André Velter and includes essays and verses by the Afghani poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh, who was assassinated in Pakistan in 1988. 76 duotone photographs.

Afghanistan

Westzone Pub Ltd

Chris Steele-Perkins, internationally acclaimed and award-winning Magnum photographer, has collected over 40 years of images which encapsulate what it means to be English. These natural and authentic photographs are a personal selection of the best and most important of Chris's images that he has taken over 40 years of photographing in England.

England My England

Northumbria University Press

“When I started photographing in Tokyo, my core subjects were elsewhere: in the developing world. And of course in my homeland, England. “Things changed when I met my wife, Miyako Yamada. I now had a compelling reason for being in Japan. “I started with a large project on Mount Fuji; later, when I brought my other Japanese material together, some images emerged, insisting on my attention, in a manner that felt like the beginnings of a book. “This process had a strong echo of what happened with an earlier book, The Pleasure Principle. “The book is about Tokyo, my Tokyo.” —photographer Chris Steele-Perkins

Tokyo Love Hello

Editions Intervalles

This classic series by legendary Magnum photographer George Rodger introduced the Western world to the Nuba peoples of Sudan. In 1949 the photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger, learned of the Nuba tribe while traveling in the Kordofan region of the Sudan. Remarkably, he was granted permission by the Sudanese government to take pictures of these striking people, who lived as their ancestors had centuries before. After publication in National Geographic magazine, these pictures―as well as Rodger’s fascinating journal entries from the shoot―have not been available to the wider public. Now, Rodger’s rare softly colored Kodachrome images are gathered in a sumptuous volume, and introduced in an essay by photographer Chris Steele-Perkins. Beautifully reproduced, Rodger’s photographs emphasize the muted colors of the Sudanese landscape as well as the Nuba’s penchant for vivid body paint, clothing, and jewelry. They are a superb example of early color photography, and a stunning celebration of a little-known tribe that lives in one of the world’s harshest environments.

George Rodger Nuba & Latuka: The Color Photographs

Prestel

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