Joy Division

by Kevin Cummins (Photographer), Jay McInerney (Foreword), Bernard Sumner (Contributor)

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Genres: Music, Photography, Nonfiction, Art

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Steve Redhead · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kevin Cummins photos were never more evocative of post-industrial Manchester than in this wonderful collection of his JD pics. This is a coffee table book to never spill coffee on. It's all too beautiful, as The Small Faces once said.

[Roger Melmoth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cummins retrata con precisión el sombrío ímpetu de esta joven banda, hijos de un Manchester golpeado por la pobreza y los fantasmas de la post-guerra. La conversación entre el fotógrafo con Bernard Summers define las coordenadas que nos permiten valorar en su real dimensión la aparición de Joy Division en la escena mancuniana.


Cummins portraits with precision the somber impetus of this young band, sons of a Manchester struck by poverty and post-war ghosts. The conversation between the photographer and Bernard Summers defines the coordinates which enable us to value in its real dimension the appearance of Joy Division in the Mancunian scene.

[Richard Buckley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stunning photographs which eerily capture Ian’s complicated demeanour and his pent up frustration with what the world offers.
Combined with haunting images of a dreary and decaying industrial Manchester.

[Eric]

You never know when those offhand snapshots at a tiny club show will become documents of myth…

[Martyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kevin Cummins is a genius and his photographs virtually scream with emotion. 'Nuff said.