{"product_id":"the-black-house-1","title":"The Black House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e: Colin Jones \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\u003c\/strong\u003e: Mike Phillips (intro.) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Prestel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2006 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e: The first edition hardback, complete with original unclipped printed dust wrapper, some very light shelf marking to the wrapper edges but otherwise very good. Internally this copy is very clean, tidy and apparently little-used. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned and dedicated by the artist on the first floating endpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy is accompanied by a small archive of Colin Jones material, including obituaries from \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e (2 Oct 2021) and \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e (30 Sep 2021), an exhibition review from \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e (20 Jan 2011), an interview by Rebecca Taylor about the Black House project from \u003cem\u003eTime Out\u003c\/em\u003e (23-29 May 2007), the exhibition listings from \u003cem\u003eClassic Dance\u003c\/em\u003e (Hoopers Gallery, 2008) and Odyssey II (Gallery One, 2003), the private view cards to \u003cem\u003eOdyssey II\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFifty Years of the Ballet \u003c\/em\u003e(Proud Chelsea, 2011) and the order of service from Jones' funeral service, 2021 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA very scarce but important book\u003c\/strong\u003e, this volume documents what began as an assignment for The Sunday Times in 1973. Jones was commissioned to visit and photograph a residential hostel in Islington, North London, 'a halfway house for vulnerable young people'. The home, called Harambee (Swahili for 'pulling together'), was run by Herman Edwards and Jones gradually built up a level of trust to be allowed in and to photograph the residents. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe young men and women who lived there were very wary of authority but Jones gradually built up a level of trust and acceptance with them and over the next three years was able to visit and photograph them, creating a valuable record of the young Black experience in London at the time. The project was closed later in the decade, but this series of photographs have been recognised as an exceptional record of a distinct group of people at a time when their circumstances were very deprived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJones was an important figure from a generation of outstanding British photographers. Born in Poplar to a working-class family, he trained as a ballet dancer and performed with the Royal Ballet, but left when he realised his life would take other paths. He began work as a photographer and produced a large body of superb images over a long career, often covering working lives. Hence his lauded images of the backstage world of the ballet contrasts with the lives of miners in the north-east and Liverpool dockers. He photographed Martin Luther King in Alabama and was also responsible for the early and memorable images of The Who (the Union Jack jacket!).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis work is held in several important photographic collections, including the V\u0026amp;A, Tate Gallery, Arts Council, National Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Art, Washington \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"sophie bradford","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53459974652241,"sku":"7029","price":375.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0909\/6039\/6625\/files\/7029f.jpg?v=1780558428","url":"https:\/\/monograph.art\/products\/the-black-house-1","provider":"Monograph","version":"1.0","type":"link"}