OPEN 21 PHOTOGRAPHS BRIAN GRIFFIN 1986 UK HC DEATH OF JOHN LENNON BARNEY BUBBLES
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Up for auction is Open, a book of 21 black-and-white photographs by Brian Griffin (born 1948), a British photographer and videographer. The hardcover title, which has yellow cloth on the spine and an ornate pictorial pastedown with title and the names of the photographer and two others (coauthors? patrons? friends?) on the front board, measures approximately 9 inches wide by 10 inches high and is not paginated. Nor does the book have any information as to its date or publishe...r, but I believe it was published in 1986 by Black Pudding, London (I've also seen it listed as self-published). I've seen other copies of this book for sale online, but they do not have the pastedowns on them -- though they are signed by Griffin, which this is not. I also think the book may have been originally published with the pages deliberately left uncut, but the pages herein are definitely cut, though the side edge is quite rough-cut, which leads me to believe it may have been cut by a previous owner.
The piece of red, blue, teal, and gold paper on the front -- on which there's another smaller piece of patterned paper attached at the bottom right -- reads:OPENTWENTY ONE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN GRIFFIN
A BOOK BY BRIAN JAMES GRIFFIN, ALEXANDER BLAIR McDOWELL, JOHN ANTONY WARWICKER-LE BRETON
Following attractive marbled / marbleized / patterned end papers in shades of blue, copper, and gold, the title page has simply OPEN, all in capital letters in blue ink, on it, at the far right, followed by a tissue guard and another blue-inked page, with the words: "the perfect night: / a sky more silver than black / ian mccullough, liverpool" printed on it, all in lower-case letters, on three separate lines. (McCullough, born 1959, is the lead singer of the new wave band Echo & the Bunnymen, for whom Griffin has worked.)
Next follow the 21 photographs, all preceded by a title page, with the titles starting at the top right corner and then slowly moving down the page, and a tissue guard. The titles, again all in lower-case letters, are:death of john lennonrocket manlloyds -- londonlondon bridgehamletmeltingthe endmetamorphosesdoreenboeing 747acton -- londontrianglehatton cross -- londonself portraitstressmalcolmgailsliced breadthomasthe portraitray
The last printed page, which also has a tissue guard preceding it and is printed in blue ink, has "JAMES GRIFFIN" at the top center and "BARNEY BUBBLES" at the bottom center. I believe James Griffin was a relative of the photographer (perhaps his father?) and Barney Bubbles was an English illustrator who was a friend of Griffin's. Here's the start of his Wikipedia entry: "Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983) was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. His record sleeves, laden with symbols and riddles, were his most recognisable output."
And here's some information from the Steven Kasher Gallery, New York (now closed), on the photographer himself, who also directed music videos and did album-cover art, including for Echo & the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode:Considered “the photographer of the decade” by the Guardian Newspaper in 1989, “the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades” by the British Journal of Photography in 2005 and “one of Britain’s most influential photographers” by the World Photography Organisation in 2015, Brian Griffin has been a freelance photographer, filmmaker and TV commercials and music video film director since 1972.Born in Birmingham in 1948, Brian Griffin grew up in the Black Country. At sixteen years old, he worked in a factory, making conveyors for five years. In 1969, at twenty-one, he went to Manchester Polytechnic (1969 – 72) to study photography, one year before Martin Parr. After finishing the photo school in 1972, Griffin came straight down to London intending to be a fashion photographer and met Roland Schenk, the charismatic art director on Management Today, who offered him a job as a corporate photographer in November 1972. Brian Griffin continued working with him until the middle of the eighties.Brian Griffin has been early on recognized as one of the most eminent British photographers of the seventies and eighties and as part of the “British Photographers of the Thatcher Years” with Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Graham Smith, Jo Spence and Victor Burgin, with whom he has exhibited in many iconic exhibitions: Young British Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975 that toured in Europe and the United States; Portraits of Our Time at the Photographer’s Gallery in London in 1978; Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography, Hayward Gallery, 1979, among Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Jo Spence, Victor Burgin; Ten Contemporary British Photographers at the MIT in 1982; British Contemporary Photography Coming of Age at the Houston Fotofest, the Texan photo festival in 1986.Following his first solo show Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Office at the Contrast Gallery in London in 1981, during the eighties, Brian Griffin had a lot of solo shows in UK, France, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Austria or Japan, including the ones at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1984, at the photo festival Rencontres d’Arles in France in 1987, and at the National Gallery in London in 1988.Brian Griffin has published twenty books between 1978 and 2015. Brian Griffin often self-published his own books. Until 1990, he self-published six: Brian Griffin Copyright in 1978, Y in 1983, Open in 1986, Portraits in 1987, Portraits, Second Edition in 1988, and Work in 1989. Work went on to be awarded the Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991. The Life magazine used the photograph “A Broken Frame” on its front cover of a special supplement “The Greatest Photographs Of The 80’s”.In November 1991, after twenty years, Brian Griffin “walked away from photography, ” as he himself remarked, and begun a worldwide-recognized carrier in advertising commercials and music videos during the nineties. He returned to photography in 2002. Since 2000 he has published 12 books and has had more than fifteen solo shows and four retrospectives: Influences (Retrospective) at the Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland in 2005, Face to Face: A Retrospective at Birmingham, UK in 2010, Brian Griffin: Annual Report 1974-2013, at the photo festival Foto/Industria in Bologna, Italy in 2013, and the latest one No Compromise (Retrospective) at the Kolga Tiblisi Photofestival in Georgia in 2015.Brian Griffin has won many awards for his carrier as a photographer and filmmaker, including four ‘Most Outstanding Awards’ by the British association D & AD (Design and Art Direction) between 1984 and 1989. In 1987, he granted the ‘Freedom of the City of Arles, France’ during the photo festival Les Rencontres d’Arles. His book WORK won two prizes: the ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography in a Book’ by D & AD in 1989 and the ‘Best Photographic book in the world’ by the pioneering Spanish festival Primavera Fotografica in Barcelona in 1990. Brian Griffin also won ‘Best Commercial of the Year’ by the Bafta Academy awards in 1992 for Forte/Saatchi & Saatchi. His short movie Claustrofoamia made in 1994 received the ‘Golden Monkey Award’ for Best Film at the Mons International Short Film Festival in Belgium and the ‘Certificate of Merit’ at the Chicago International Film Festival, both in 1995.In 2009, Brian Griffin became the patron of the Derby Festival of Photography and continues to be the Festival's patron. In September 2013, he received the ‘Centenary Medal’ from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography. On March 3rd, 2014, he received an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University for his lifetime contribution to the City of Birmingham.Brian Griffin’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of major art institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain, London; the British Council, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; the Mast Foundation, Bologna; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
Here's lots more information on Griffin from the Kasher Gallery website (peruse at your own peril -- I just ran all of the info together): BRIAN GRIFFIN / BORN: in 1948, in Birmingham, UK. LIVES AND WORKS: in London, UK. / ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: Honorary Doctorate Birmingham City University, 2014; Manchester Polytechnic School of Photography 1969-1972 / TIMELINE: TV Commercials/ Music Video film director 1991 - ; Co-established Produktion 1991; Established Brian Griffin Studio 1980; Freelance Photographer 1972- ; Worked for British Steel Corporation, Birmingham 1964-1969 / REPRESENTED IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (SELECTION): Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Arts Council, London; British Council, London; West Midlands Arts, UK; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Mast Foundation, Bologna, Italy; City Museum, Braga, Portugal; Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; Baugur Group, Iceland / SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION): No Compromise (Retrospective), Kolga Tiblisi Photofestival, Georgia, 2015; DisCover Photography, Lodz Fotofestiwal, Poland, 2014; Brian Griffin: Annual Report 1974-2013, Foto/Industria, Bologna, Italy, 2013; Mediterranees, Marseille – Provence 2013, France, 2013; Still Waters, Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK, 2013; Welcome to Hofn, Hofn, Iceland, 2012; The Black Country, Arles-Beijing 2012, Beijing, China; The Black Country, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, 2011; The Black Country, College des Bernardins, Paris, 2010; Face to Face: A Retrospective, Birmingham, UK, 2010; One Man Show, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France 2009; One Man Show, England & Co Gallery, London, UK, 2008; One Man Show, Ardenandanstruther Gallery, Petworth, UK, 2008; One Man Show, University of Falmouth, UK, 2008; TeamPhoto, St. Pancras, London, UK, 2007; The Water People, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006; The Trip, One man show, German Gymnasium, London, 2005; Influences (Retrospective), Art Museum, Reyjkavik, Iceland, 2005; Gallery at Sketch, London, 2004; Forum Stadt Park, Graz, Austria, 1990; Perspektief, Rotterdam, 1990; Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, 1990; Pokjoinen Valokuvakeskus, Finland, 1990; Fotografiskt Galleri, Stockholm, 1990; Photographer of the Decade, Poseurs, Birmingham, 1990; 2nd encontros da imagem, Braga, Portugal, 1988; WORK, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988; WORK, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh International Festival, 1988; Galeria Artu $al, Barcelona, 1988; Pendle Photographic Gallery, Nelson, UK, 1988; Picture House, Leicester, UK, 1988; Impressions Gallery, York, UK, 1988; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK, 1988; Visage Gallery, Chester, UK, 1988; De Moor, Amsterdam, 1987; Portraits, Cite des Photographes, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 1987; Augenweide, Olympus Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 1986; Razzle Dazzle Pop, ICA London, 1984; Brian Griffin, Olympus Gallery Tokyo, 1984; Auras, Olympus Gallery, London, 1983; Brian Griffin, Manchester Polytechnic, 1983; Brian Griffin, Savile Club, London, 1983; Foto Factory, Sweden, 1982; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 1982; International Foto Festrival, Malmo, Sweden, 1982; Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, 1982; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 1982; Rock 'n' Roll and The Office, Contrast Gallery. London, 1981. GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION): Entre Margens, Porto, Portugal, 2013; Reference Works, New Library of Birmingham, UK, 2013; Photo 50, International Art Fair, London, 2013; Road to 2012, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010; No Such Thing As Society, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, 2008; Madame le Presidente, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2007; Between Today and Yesterday, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK, 2007; A Question of Identity: Self-Portrait Photographs 1850-2000, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2005; Aspects of Architecture, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2004; Time Out Portraits, Tom Blau Gallery, London, 2004; Circling the Square, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2003; Collecting photographs, Focus Gallery, London, 2003; Le Cheveu, L'Espace Gallery. Montreal, Canada, 2003; People and The City: A Cultural Portrait of Birmingham, Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum, UK, 2003; Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002; Meet, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, 1999; UNDER/EXPOSED, Stockholm, 1998; Beyond The Portrait, Derby City Museum, UK, 1992; Interarte, Visor Centre Fotografic, Valencia, Spain, 1988; 150 Years of Photography, Manes Hall, Prague, 1988; Through The Looking Glass, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1988; Towards A Bigger Picture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1988; Kodachrome Classics, Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1988; Createurs d’Images Createurs de Mode, Musee des Arts de la Mode, Paris, 1988; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1988; Norwich Arts Centre UK, 1988; Foto Biennale, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1988; XYZ Fotografie, Ghent, Belgium, 1988; IF sas, Milan, Italy, 1988; Fotografia Oltre, Chiasso, Switzerland, 1988; Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France, 1988; 3rd Foto Biennale, Vigo, Spain, 1988; 78:33:CD, The Gallery Downstairs, Burnley, Lancashire, UK, 1987; Disc Cover: The Art of the Record Sleeve, City of Edinburgh Art Gallery, Edinburgh, 1986; Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain, 1930-1986, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales, 1986; Cricket and Modern Art, Art Gallery, Scarborough, UK, 1986; 50 Years of Modern Colour Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1986; European Portrait Photography, Foto Galerij, Antwerp, Belgium, 1986; 20 For Today, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1986; British Contemporary Photography: Coming of Age, Houston Foto Festival, Texas, 1986; Human Interest: Fifty Years of British Art About People, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1985; London at Night, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1983; Lichtbildnisse -- Das Porträt in der Fotografie, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1982; Contemporary British Photographers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982; Half a Dozen Photographers, Stafford Art Gallery, UK, 1981; Photogallery, St Leonard’s on Sea, UK, 1979; Three Perspectives, Hayward Gallery, London, 1979; Portraits of Our Time, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1978; Young British Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1975 / BOOKS: Himmelstrasse, Brown Editions, 2015; The Black Kingdom, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013; Business as Usual, Editions Bessard, 2013; Still Waters, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, 2013; Face to Face, Birmingham Library, 2010; Team, LCR, 2007; The White Glove, Self-Published, 2006; Loaf of White Bread, Self-Published, 2006; Baugur The Movie, Baugur Group, 2006; The Water People, Self-Published, 2005; Brian Griffin Influences, Self-Published, 2005; Film Stills, Self-Published, 2000; Work, Central Books Ltd (Self-Published), 1989; Portraits, Second Edition, Self-Published, 1988; Portraits, Self-Published, 1987; Open, Self-Published, 1986; Power, paperback, Travelling Light, 1984; Auras, Olympus Gallery, 1983; Y (with Barney Bubbles), Self-Published Paper, 1983; Power, Travelling Light, 1981; Brian Griffin Copyright (with Barney Bubbles), Self-Published, 1978 / SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES: AF (Spain); Anglia TV; Art; ArtLine; Atlantica; BBC Radio 1 My Top Ten; BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope; BBC TV Newsnight; British Journal of Photography; Camera Work; City Limits; Clichés; Connaissance des Arts; Creative Camera; The Daily Telegraph; Diorama; Domus; El Pais; El Temps; European Photography; The Face; Foto (Netherlands); Foto Vision; The Guardian; Image; Images Magazine; Le Monde; Liberation; Life (USA); Morgan Post; Paris Match; Photoreporter; Popular Photography (USA); Sunday Times Magazine; Ten:8; Thames TV 01 For London; Time Out; US Camera; Valencian. / PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS/HONORS: ‘Centenary Medal’ from the Royal Photographic Society, 2013; ‘Best Photographic book in the world’, Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, 1990 (for WORK); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography in a Book’, D & AD, 1989 (for WORK); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Promotional Magazine’, D & AD, 1988 (for Broadgate); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Self-Promotional Item’, D & AD, 1988 (for Portraits); The Art Directors’ Club, 2nd International Exhibition – Merit, 1988 (for Portraits); Granted the ‘Freedom of the City’ during the Photo Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 1987; Mead Annual Report Show - ‘Commendation for Photography’, 1985 (Hewlett Packard); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography’, D & AD, 1984 (A Broken Frame/Depeche Mode) / COMMISIONED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK (SELECTED CLIENTS): Music Industry (British Murder Boys, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Depeche Mode, Devo, Echo and The Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, Joe Jackson, King Sunny Ade, Sir Paul McCartney, Mogwai, Pan Sonic, Panasonic, Pole, Iggy Pop, Psychedelic Furs, REM, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Sly ‘n’ Robbie, Ringo Starr, Sting, Tindersticks, Throbbing Gristle); Advertising (Audi, Beefeater Gin, BMW, British Airways, British Rail, Courrèges, Coutts & Co., Credit Agricole, Ford Cars, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt Hotels, Ilford Film, International Wool Secretariat, KHD Deutz, Kodak, ; Levi Jeans, Lloyds Bank, London & Continental Railways, Marriott Hotels, Nike, Nissan, Olympus Cameras, P & O, Range Rover, Service Municipale, Smirnoff Vodka, Sony, Wrangler Jeans); Magazines (Arena Homme +, Broadgate, Comme des Garçons, SIX, Details, Esquire, The Face, GQ, GQ Italy, ID, Interview, Management Today, The Observer Magazine, Six, Spoon, Sunday Times Magazine, Time Out, The Times, L'uomo Vogue); Annual Reports (ASDA, Baugur, CE Health, Coutts, Herbert Smith Solicitors, Hewlett Packard 1984 & 1988, Hewlett Packard Germany, London & Metropolitan, Lynwood Scientific, Metestates, National Freight Consortium, Reykavik Energy, Summit, TSB); MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTIONS AND AWARDS: Films (Film documentary for, and of, Sir Paul McCartney, 2004; Bluetown, 2000-2003 Feature film; written and directed; The Curl, 1996 Short; written, photographed and directed; Claustrofoamia, 1994 Short; written and directed); TV, Commercials (Selection): Access (Red Dress) GGT; Audi (Tunnel) BBH; BMW (Fate A + B), Jung von Matt; British Legion (PoppyAppeal) DFSD; Forte (For the World) Saatchi & Saatchi; British Airways (Dog, Cowboy), M & C Saatchi; Fuji Film (Fairground) Saatchi & Saatchi; BMW, Japan (Blind Spot); Coca Cola, USA (Summertime, Cooler); FIAT, Italy, Leo Burnett; IKEA, Germany (The Big Idea, Life In Reverse); Kodak, Italy, Leo Burnett; McEwans Lager (Rooms) CDP; Murphy’s Bitter (Winter Wonderland) BBH; Nissan (Journey) TBWA; Nissan (All or Nothing) TBWA; Roche Macaulay & Ptnrs; Sanatogen (Coal) WCRS; Tchibo (Privat Kaffee) Scholz & Friends; Tesco (False Economy) LHS; TGIF (Waiter) McCann Erickson. Music Video (Selection): Elvis Costello & The Attractions: “Sulky Girl”; Depeche Mode: “Only When I Lose Myself”; Echo & The Bunnymen: “Killing Moon”; Lodestar: “Down In The Mud”; Mogwai: “Xmas Steps / Stanley Kubrick”; Pan Sonic featuring Alan Vega: “Endless”; Panasonic: “Urania”; Vent 414: “Life Before You” / AWARDS: Winner of ‘Golden Monkey Award’ for Best Film, Mons International Short Film festival, 1995 (for CLAUSTROFOAMIA, 1994); ‘Certificate of Merit’, The Chicago International Film Festival, 1995 (for CLAUSTROFOAMIA, 1994); Creative Circle - Best Director, 1992 (for Forte (For the World) Saatchi & Saatchi); ‘Best Commercial of the Year’, BAFTA Academy Awards, 1992 (Forte/Saatchi & Saatchi) / AUDIO VISUAL PERFORMANCES: Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2009; One man show, England Gallery, London, 2008; National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007; National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004; St. Martins College of Art, London, 2004; Art Museum Reykjavik, 2004; Derby University, 2004; Cambridge University, 2004; National Portrait Gallery, London, 2003; Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham, 2003; BBC TV The Late Show, 1990; Encontros da imagem ‘90, Braga, 1990; Metro Cinema Derby, 1990; BBC TV The Late Show, 1989; National Portrait Gallery, London, 1989; Silverman Hall, Nelson, 1988; 3rd Foto Biennale, Vigo, 1988; Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Festival, 1988; Theatre Antique, Arles, 1987 / TEACHING: Visiting Professor at University of Derby, 2013 / NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Patron of the Format Photo Festival, Derby, UK, 2009 and 2011.
The overall condition of this rare title is good to very good. There's some corner-bumping, edgewear, chipping, spotting, etc., on the grey cardboard binding, which is covered with yellow cloth at the spine and has a multicolored pastedown (with title in gold) on the front board with another smaller horizontal one over it. The marbled / patterned end pages look excellent and are unmarked. There's a bookseller's price written on the top right of the title page, which is a bit smudged, as are some of pages within, which are otherwise clean and unmarked, with no annotations, marginalia, underlining, scribbles, scrawls, etc. The tissue guards are all present, but a few (3 or 4) of them are bent / creased. All the glossy pages within look very good, with no markings, spots, bends, etc., that I could see, just some smudges here and there. The book has neither a musty nor smoky odor.
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The piece of red, blue, teal, and gold paper on the front -- on which there's another smaller piece of patterned paper attached at the bottom right -- reads:OPENTWENTY ONE PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN GRIFFIN
A BOOK BY BRIAN JAMES GRIFFIN, ALEXANDER BLAIR McDOWELL, JOHN ANTONY WARWICKER-LE BRETON
Following attractive marbled / marbleized / patterned end papers in shades of blue, copper, and gold, the title page has simply OPEN, all in capital letters in blue ink, on it, at the far right, followed by a tissue guard and another blue-inked page, with the words: "the perfect night: / a sky more silver than black / ian mccullough, liverpool" printed on it, all in lower-case letters, on three separate lines. (McCullough, born 1959, is the lead singer of the new wave band Echo & the Bunnymen, for whom Griffin has worked.)
Next follow the 21 photographs, all preceded by a title page, with the titles starting at the top right corner and then slowly moving down the page, and a tissue guard. The titles, again all in lower-case letters, are:death of john lennonrocket manlloyds -- londonlondon bridgehamletmeltingthe endmetamorphosesdoreenboeing 747acton -- londontrianglehatton cross -- londonself portraitstressmalcolmgailsliced breadthomasthe portraitray
The last printed page, which also has a tissue guard preceding it and is printed in blue ink, has "JAMES GRIFFIN" at the top center and "BARNEY BUBBLES" at the bottom center. I believe James Griffin was a relative of the photographer (perhaps his father?) and Barney Bubbles was an English illustrator who was a friend of Griffin's. Here's the start of his Wikipedia entry: "Barney Bubbles (born Colin Fulcher; 30 July 1942 – 14 November 1983) was an English graphic artist whose work encompassed graphic design and music video direction. Bubbles, who also sketched and painted privately, is best known for his distinctive contribution to the design practices associated with the British independent music scene of the 1970s and 1980s. His record sleeves, laden with symbols and riddles, were his most recognisable output."
And here's some information from the Steven Kasher Gallery, New York (now closed), on the photographer himself, who also directed music videos and did album-cover art, including for Echo & the Bunnymen and Depeche Mode:Considered “the photographer of the decade” by the Guardian Newspaper in 1989, “the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last decades” by the British Journal of Photography in 2005 and “one of Britain’s most influential photographers” by the World Photography Organisation in 2015, Brian Griffin has been a freelance photographer, filmmaker and TV commercials and music video film director since 1972.Born in Birmingham in 1948, Brian Griffin grew up in the Black Country. At sixteen years old, he worked in a factory, making conveyors for five years. In 1969, at twenty-one, he went to Manchester Polytechnic (1969 – 72) to study photography, one year before Martin Parr. After finishing the photo school in 1972, Griffin came straight down to London intending to be a fashion photographer and met Roland Schenk, the charismatic art director on Management Today, who offered him a job as a corporate photographer in November 1972. Brian Griffin continued working with him until the middle of the eighties.Brian Griffin has been early on recognized as one of the most eminent British photographers of the seventies and eighties and as part of the “British Photographers of the Thatcher Years” with Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Graham Smith, Jo Spence and Victor Burgin, with whom he has exhibited in many iconic exhibitions: Young British Photographers at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1975 that toured in Europe and the United States; Portraits of Our Time at the Photographer’s Gallery in London in 1978; Three Perspectives on Photography: Recent British Photography, Hayward Gallery, 1979, among Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Jo Spence, Victor Burgin; Ten Contemporary British Photographers at the MIT in 1982; British Contemporary Photography Coming of Age at the Houston Fotofest, the Texan photo festival in 1986.Following his first solo show Rock ‘n’ Roll and The Office at the Contrast Gallery in London in 1981, during the eighties, Brian Griffin had a lot of solo shows in UK, France, Sweden, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Austria or Japan, including the ones at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1984, at the photo festival Rencontres d’Arles in France in 1987, and at the National Gallery in London in 1988.Brian Griffin has published twenty books between 1978 and 2015. Brian Griffin often self-published his own books. Until 1990, he self-published six: Brian Griffin Copyright in 1978, Y in 1983, Open in 1986, Portraits in 1987, Portraits, Second Edition in 1988, and Work in 1989. Work went on to be awarded the Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991. The Life magazine used the photograph “A Broken Frame” on its front cover of a special supplement “The Greatest Photographs Of The 80’s”.In November 1991, after twenty years, Brian Griffin “walked away from photography, ” as he himself remarked, and begun a worldwide-recognized carrier in advertising commercials and music videos during the nineties. He returned to photography in 2002. Since 2000 he has published 12 books and has had more than fifteen solo shows and four retrospectives: Influences (Retrospective) at the Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland in 2005, Face to Face: A Retrospective at Birmingham, UK in 2010, Brian Griffin: Annual Report 1974-2013, at the photo festival Foto/Industria in Bologna, Italy in 2013, and the latest one No Compromise (Retrospective) at the Kolga Tiblisi Photofestival in Georgia in 2015.Brian Griffin has won many awards for his carrier as a photographer and filmmaker, including four ‘Most Outstanding Awards’ by the British association D & AD (Design and Art Direction) between 1984 and 1989. In 1987, he granted the ‘Freedom of the City of Arles, France’ during the photo festival Les Rencontres d’Arles. His book WORK won two prizes: the ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography in a Book’ by D & AD in 1989 and the ‘Best Photographic book in the world’ by the pioneering Spanish festival Primavera Fotografica in Barcelona in 1990. Brian Griffin also won ‘Best Commercial of the Year’ by the Bafta Academy awards in 1992 for Forte/Saatchi & Saatchi. His short movie Claustrofoamia made in 1994 received the ‘Golden Monkey Award’ for Best Film at the Mons International Short Film Festival in Belgium and the ‘Certificate of Merit’ at the Chicago International Film Festival, both in 1995.In 2009, Brian Griffin became the patron of the Derby Festival of Photography and continues to be the Festival's patron. In September 2013, he received the ‘Centenary Medal’ from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography. On March 3rd, 2014, he received an Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University for his lifetime contribution to the City of Birmingham.Brian Griffin’s photographs are held in the permanent collections of major art institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Arts Council of Great Britain, London; the British Council, London; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; the Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; the Mast Foundation, Bologna; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
Here's lots more information on Griffin from the Kasher Gallery website (peruse at your own peril -- I just ran all of the info together): BRIAN GRIFFIN / BORN: in 1948, in Birmingham, UK. LIVES AND WORKS: in London, UK. / ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: Honorary Doctorate Birmingham City University, 2014; Manchester Polytechnic School of Photography 1969-1972 / TIMELINE: TV Commercials/ Music Video film director 1991 - ; Co-established Produktion 1991; Established Brian Griffin Studio 1980; Freelance Photographer 1972- ; Worked for British Steel Corporation, Birmingham 1964-1969 / REPRESENTED IN PERMANENT COLLECTIONS (SELECTION): Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Arts Council, London; British Council, London; West Midlands Arts, UK; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Mast Foundation, Bologna, Italy; City Museum, Braga, Portugal; Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland; Baugur Group, Iceland / SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION): No Compromise (Retrospective), Kolga Tiblisi Photofestival, Georgia, 2015; DisCover Photography, Lodz Fotofestiwal, Poland, 2014; Brian Griffin: Annual Report 1974-2013, Foto/Industria, Bologna, Italy, 2013; Mediterranees, Marseille – Provence 2013, France, 2013; Still Waters, Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, UK, 2013; Welcome to Hofn, Hofn, Iceland, 2012; The Black Country, Arles-Beijing 2012, Beijing, China; The Black Country, New Art Gallery Walsall, UK, 2011; The Black Country, College des Bernardins, Paris, 2010; Face to Face: A Retrospective, Birmingham, UK, 2010; One Man Show, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France 2009; One Man Show, England & Co Gallery, London, UK, 2008; One Man Show, Ardenandanstruther Gallery, Petworth, UK, 2008; One Man Show, University of Falmouth, UK, 2008; TeamPhoto, St. Pancras, London, UK, 2007; The Water People, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006; The Trip, One man show, German Gymnasium, London, 2005; Influences (Retrospective), Art Museum, Reyjkavik, Iceland, 2005; Gallery at Sketch, London, 2004; Forum Stadt Park, Graz, Austria, 1990; Perspektief, Rotterdam, 1990; Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, 1990; Pokjoinen Valokuvakeskus, Finland, 1990; Fotografiskt Galleri, Stockholm, 1990; Photographer of the Decade, Poseurs, Birmingham, 1990; 2nd encontros da imagem, Braga, Portugal, 1988; WORK, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988; WORK, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh International Festival, 1988; Galeria Artu $al, Barcelona, 1988; Pendle Photographic Gallery, Nelson, UK, 1988; Picture House, Leicester, UK, 1988; Impressions Gallery, York, UK, 1988; Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK, 1988; Visage Gallery, Chester, UK, 1988; De Moor, Amsterdam, 1987; Portraits, Cite des Photographes, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 1987; Augenweide, Olympus Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, 1986; Razzle Dazzle Pop, ICA London, 1984; Brian Griffin, Olympus Gallery Tokyo, 1984; Auras, Olympus Gallery, London, 1983; Brian Griffin, Manchester Polytechnic, 1983; Brian Griffin, Savile Club, London, 1983; Foto Factory, Sweden, 1982; IKON Gallery, Birmingham, 1982; International Foto Festrival, Malmo, Sweden, 1982; Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, 1982; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, 1982; Rock 'n' Roll and The Office, Contrast Gallery. London, 1981. GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION): Entre Margens, Porto, Portugal, 2013; Reference Works, New Library of Birmingham, UK, 2013; Photo 50, International Art Fair, London, 2013; Road to 2012, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010; No Such Thing As Society, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, 2008; Madame le Presidente, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2007; Between Today and Yesterday, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK, 2007; A Question of Identity: Self-Portrait Photographs 1850-2000, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2005; Aspects of Architecture, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK, 2004; Time Out Portraits, Tom Blau Gallery, London, 2004; Circling the Square, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2003; Collecting photographs, Focus Gallery, London, 2003; Le Cheveu, L'Espace Gallery. Montreal, Canada, 2003; People and The City: A Cultural Portrait of Birmingham, Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum, UK, 2003; Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2002; Meet, Chamber of Pop Culture, London, 1999; UNDER/EXPOSED, Stockholm, 1998; Beyond The Portrait, Derby City Museum, UK, 1992; Interarte, Visor Centre Fotografic, Valencia, Spain, 1988; 150 Years of Photography, Manes Hall, Prague, 1988; Through The Looking Glass, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1988; Towards A Bigger Picture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1988; Kodachrome Classics, Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1988; Createurs d’Images Createurs de Mode, Musee des Arts de la Mode, Paris, 1988; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK, 1988; Norwich Arts Centre UK, 1988; Foto Biennale, Enschede, The Netherlands, 1988; XYZ Fotografie, Ghent, Belgium, 1988; IF sas, Milan, Italy, 1988; Fotografia Oltre, Chiasso, Switzerland, 1988; Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais, France, 1988; 3rd Foto Biennale, Vigo, Spain, 1988; 78:33:CD, The Gallery Downstairs, Burnley, Lancashire, UK, 1987; Disc Cover: The Art of the Record Sleeve, City of Edinburgh Art Gallery, Edinburgh, 1986; Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain, 1930-1986, Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales, 1986; Cricket and Modern Art, Art Gallery, Scarborough, UK, 1986; 50 Years of Modern Colour Photography, Photokina, Cologne, Germany, 1986; European Portrait Photography, Foto Galerij, Antwerp, Belgium, 1986; 20 For Today, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1986; British Contemporary Photography: Coming of Age, Houston Foto Festival, Texas, 1986; Human Interest: Fifty Years of British Art About People, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 1985; London at Night, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1983; Lichtbildnisse -- Das Porträt in der Fotografie, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, 1982; Contemporary British Photographers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982; Half a Dozen Photographers, Stafford Art Gallery, UK, 1981; Photogallery, St Leonard’s on Sea, UK, 1979; Three Perspectives, Hayward Gallery, London, 1979; Portraits of Our Time, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1978; Young British Photographers, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1975 / BOOKS: Himmelstrasse, Brown Editions, 2015; The Black Kingdom, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2013; Business as Usual, Editions Bessard, 2013; Still Waters, Derby Museum and Art Gallery, 2013; Face to Face, Birmingham Library, 2010; Team, LCR, 2007; The White Glove, Self-Published, 2006; Loaf of White Bread, Self-Published, 2006; Baugur The Movie, Baugur Group, 2006; The Water People, Self-Published, 2005; Brian Griffin Influences, Self-Published, 2005; Film Stills, Self-Published, 2000; Work, Central Books Ltd (Self-Published), 1989; Portraits, Second Edition, Self-Published, 1988; Portraits, Self-Published, 1987; Open, Self-Published, 1986; Power, paperback, Travelling Light, 1984; Auras, Olympus Gallery, 1983; Y (with Barney Bubbles), Self-Published Paper, 1983; Power, Travelling Light, 1981; Brian Griffin Copyright (with Barney Bubbles), Self-Published, 1978 / SELECTED INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES: AF (Spain); Anglia TV; Art; ArtLine; Atlantica; BBC Radio 1 My Top Ten; BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope; BBC TV Newsnight; British Journal of Photography; Camera Work; City Limits; Clichés; Connaissance des Arts; Creative Camera; The Daily Telegraph; Diorama; Domus; El Pais; El Temps; European Photography; The Face; Foto (Netherlands); Foto Vision; The Guardian; Image; Images Magazine; Le Monde; Liberation; Life (USA); Morgan Post; Paris Match; Photoreporter; Popular Photography (USA); Sunday Times Magazine; Ten:8; Thames TV 01 For London; Time Out; US Camera; Valencian. / PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS/HONORS: ‘Centenary Medal’ from the Royal Photographic Society, 2013; ‘Best Photographic book in the world’, Primavera Fotografica, Barcelona, 1990 (for WORK); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography in a Book’, D & AD, 1989 (for WORK); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Promotional Magazine’, D & AD, 1988 (for Broadgate); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Self-Promotional Item’, D & AD, 1988 (for Portraits); The Art Directors’ Club, 2nd International Exhibition – Merit, 1988 (for Portraits); Granted the ‘Freedom of the City’ during the Photo Festival Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 1987; Mead Annual Report Show - ‘Commendation for Photography’, 1985 (Hewlett Packard); ‘Most Outstanding Award for Photography’, D & AD, 1984 (A Broken Frame/Depeche Mode) / COMMISIONED PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK (SELECTED CLIENTS): Music Industry (British Murder Boys, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Depeche Mode, Devo, Echo and The Bunnymen, Peter Gabriel, Billy Idol, Joe Jackson, King Sunny Ade, Sir Paul McCartney, Mogwai, Pan Sonic, Panasonic, Pole, Iggy Pop, Psychedelic Furs, REM, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Sly ‘n’ Robbie, Ringo Starr, Sting, Tindersticks, Throbbing Gristle); Advertising (Audi, Beefeater Gin, BMW, British Airways, British Rail, Courrèges, Coutts & Co., Credit Agricole, Ford Cars, Hewlett Packard, Hyatt Hotels, Ilford Film, International Wool Secretariat, KHD Deutz, Kodak, ; Levi Jeans, Lloyds Bank, London & Continental Railways, Marriott Hotels, Nike, Nissan, Olympus Cameras, P & O, Range Rover, Service Municipale, Smirnoff Vodka, Sony, Wrangler Jeans); Magazines (Arena Homme +, Broadgate, Comme des Garçons, SIX, Details, Esquire, The Face, GQ, GQ Italy, ID, Interview, Management Today, The Observer Magazine, Six, Spoon, Sunday Times Magazine, Time Out, The Times, L'uomo Vogue); Annual Reports (ASDA, Baugur, CE Health, Coutts, Herbert Smith Solicitors, Hewlett Packard 1984 & 1988, Hewlett Packard Germany, London & Metropolitan, Lynwood Scientific, Metestates, National Freight Consortium, Reykavik Energy, Summit, TSB); MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTIONS AND AWARDS: Films (Film documentary for, and of, Sir Paul McCartney, 2004; Bluetown, 2000-2003 Feature film; written and directed; The Curl, 1996 Short; written, photographed and directed; Claustrofoamia, 1994 Short; written and directed); TV, Commercials (Selection): Access (Red Dress) GGT; Audi (Tunnel) BBH; BMW (Fate A + B), Jung von Matt; British Legion (PoppyAppeal) DFSD; Forte (For the World) Saatchi & Saatchi; British Airways (Dog, Cowboy), M & C Saatchi; Fuji Film (Fairground) Saatchi & Saatchi; BMW, Japan (Blind Spot); Coca Cola, USA (Summertime, Cooler); FIAT, Italy, Leo Burnett; IKEA, Germany (The Big Idea, Life In Reverse); Kodak, Italy, Leo Burnett; McEwans Lager (Rooms) CDP; Murphy’s Bitter (Winter Wonderland) BBH; Nissan (Journey) TBWA; Nissan (All or Nothing) TBWA; Roche Macaulay & Ptnrs; Sanatogen (Coal) WCRS; Tchibo (Privat Kaffee) Scholz & Friends; Tesco (False Economy) LHS; TGIF (Waiter) McCann Erickson. Music Video (Selection): Elvis Costello & The Attractions: “Sulky Girl”; Depeche Mode: “Only When I Lose Myself”; Echo & The Bunnymen: “Killing Moon”; Lodestar: “Down In The Mud”; Mogwai: “Xmas Steps / Stanley Kubrick”; Pan Sonic featuring Alan Vega: “Endless”; Panasonic: “Urania”; Vent 414: “Life Before You” / AWARDS: Winner of ‘Golden Monkey Award’ for Best Film, Mons International Short Film festival, 1995 (for CLAUSTROFOAMIA, 1994); ‘Certificate of Merit’, The Chicago International Film Festival, 1995 (for CLAUSTROFOAMIA, 1994); Creative Circle - Best Director, 1992 (for Forte (For the World) Saatchi & Saatchi); ‘Best Commercial of the Year’, BAFTA Academy Awards, 1992 (Forte/Saatchi & Saatchi) / AUDIO VISUAL PERFORMANCES: Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France, 2009; One man show, England Gallery, London, 2008; National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2007; National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004; St. Martins College of Art, London, 2004; Art Museum Reykjavik, 2004; Derby University, 2004; Cambridge University, 2004; National Portrait Gallery, London, 2003; Rhubarb-Rhubarb, Birmingham, 2003; BBC TV The Late Show, 1990; Encontros da imagem ‘90, Braga, 1990; Metro Cinema Derby, 1990; BBC TV The Late Show, 1989; National Portrait Gallery, London, 1989; Silverman Hall, Nelson, 1988; 3rd Foto Biennale, Vigo, 1988; Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh Festival, 1988; Theatre Antique, Arles, 1987 / TEACHING: Visiting Professor at University of Derby, 2013 / NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: Patron of the Format Photo Festival, Derby, UK, 2009 and 2011.
The overall condition of this rare title is good to very good. There's some corner-bumping, edgewear, chipping, spotting, etc., on the grey cardboard binding, which is covered with yellow cloth at the spine and has a multicolored pastedown (with title in gold) on the front board with another smaller horizontal one over it. The marbled / patterned end pages look excellent and are unmarked. There's a bookseller's price written on the top right of the title page, which is a bit smudged, as are some of pages within, which are otherwise clean and unmarked, with no annotations, marginalia, underlining, scribbles, scrawls, etc. The tissue guards are all present, but a few (3 or 4) of them are bent / creased. All the glossy pages within look very good, with no markings, spots, bends, etc., that I could see, just some smudges here and there. The book has neither a musty nor smoky odor.
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