Homecoming.

by Don McCullin

After years of covering wars and conflicts around the globe, British photographer Don McCullin--one of the best photojournalists of his generation--went home in the hopes discovering who he was and where he came from. This volume of images of Britain and the English people was the result. Photographs and biographical essay by Don McCullin. 190 pages; full-spread b&w plates throughout; 9.5 x 13.5 inches.

192 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1979

About the author

Don McCullin grew up in north London and was evacuated in 1940 to Somerset. He failed the eleven-plus examination and went to Tollington Park Secondary Modern School. He won a trade art scholarship to the Hammersmith School of Arts and Crafts and Buildings. His father, who was an invalid, died, aged forty and McCullin was forced to find work to earn money for the family. He became a pantry boy on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway dining cars, travelling between London and Manchester. In 1950 he went to work in a cartoon animation studio in Mayfair before the Observer newspaper bought one of his gangland pictures and set him on the road as a photojournalist. He moved to the Sunday Times, where he worked for eighteen years. His photographs of almost every major conflict in his adult lifetime until the Falklands war provide some of the most potent images of the twentieth century. His pictures are in major museum collections all over the world. He is the holder of many honours and awards, including the C.B.E. His home is in a Somerset village.