Perspectives

by Don McCullin

Lovely clean copy, Dj has light tanning to edges, now in Mylar.

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1987

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.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great b&w photos of poor folks living in small cities in England. Very grainy, which usually adds to the impact, but sometimes leaves me wondering if he just has no idea how to develop his prints or something.