Award winning British photo-journalist Brian Harris has produced ‘… and then the Prime Minister hit me…’ a 320 page hard back book of images and essays covering his life’s work starting in the 1960’s at Fox Photos the Fleet Street press agency followed by nearly 10 years at The Times and 14 years as chief photographer at The Independent Newspaper. Brian lives in Thaxted in NW Essex.
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Brian Harris
Brian Harris has been an editorial, news and current affairs photographer for more than 45 years. Fascinated in his teens by the alchemy of the darkroom, in the 1960s Brian was combining school work with photographing weddings and football matches in his native Essex. A job as a runner at the Fox Photos agency at the age of sixteen set Brian on the path that would shape his life. In the 1970s Brian worked in the heart of London’s Fleet Street, freelancing for The Sun, The Times, News of the World, the BBC and United Press International, covering everything from IRA bombings to celebrity news, until joining The Times as its youngest ever staff photographer aged twenty-five. When The Independent launched in 1986, Brian became its first staff photographer, playing a key role in forming the renowned Indy style of intelligent editorial photography. In his fourteen years at The Independent Brian travelled the world to cover the stories that defined the era.
Standard edition
23 x 28 x 3.5cm
1.90kg
320 pages, Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9575405-5-2
£55 +£6 post and packing
The design is by Professor Phil Cleaver and Jennifer Penny at et-al design consultants in Oxford and picture edited by Glynn Griffiths formerly of the Independent. The book was printed by the Geoff Neal Group in Feltham, west London. The french folded dust jackets were all hand made and to allow the book to open completely flat so that the photographs ‘don’t fall into the gutter’ the book is hand finished and glued without a spine.
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Limited edition
Limited slip case edition
1-200 (copies from 70 onwards are available except 100 and 200) with a signed and numbered A4 print
23 x 28 x 3.5cm
1.90kg
320 pages, Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-9955540-1-6
£130 inc post and packing
The limited edition of 200 is slip cased, signed and numbered by Brian Harris. It also includes a beautiful print made on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Rag 310gsm paper. The image will be 204 x 136mm on 255 x 210mm paper and will also be signed and numbered the same as the book.
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