IN SOCCER WONDERLAND - Julian Germain
Photographer Julian Germain has long been a soccer fan, and in this photo book Julian explores soccer culture, presented not as a series of classically composed images, but as disparate photographs from a personal scrapbook.
Julian Germain belongs to a generation of British photographers who have begun to question many of the assumptions of documentary practice, a genre long considered the "backbone" of British photography. The normative approach to subject matter (usually limited to a handful of worthy subjects such as war, poverty and the downtrodden) and notions of "objectivity" have been seriously undermined over the past decade. By adopting a series of different authors' points of view in a variety of media (from large black-and-white prints to tiny, brightly colored snapshots), Germain offers his audience a multi-layered view of soccer. As in a good play, we are encouraged to consider the subject from different angles - we can, for example, choose at any given moment to empathize with the young soccer fan obsessed with her hero, or with the "soccer widow" immortalized in her red-and-white-painted garden. - Brett Rogers, extract from the foreword to the catalog for the exhibition In Soccer Wonderland, British Council Visual Arts, 1995.
Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1994
28.5 × 22.5cm
168 pages
ISBN: 978-1873968307
Photographer Julian Germain has long been a soccer fan, and in this photo book Julian explores soccer culture, presented not as a series of classically composed images, but as disparate photographs from a personal scrapbook.
Julian Germain belongs to a generation of British photographers who have begun to question many of the assumptions of documentary practice, a genre long considered the "backbone" of British photography. The normative approach to subject matter (usually limited to a handful of worthy subjects such as war, poverty and the downtrodden) and notions of "objectivity" have been seriously undermined over the past decade. By adopting a series of different authors' points of view in a variety of media (from large black-and-white prints to tiny, brightly colored snapshots), Germain offers his audience a multi-layered view of soccer. As in a good play, we are encouraged to consider the subject from different angles - we can, for example, choose at any given moment to empathize with the young soccer fan obsessed with her hero, or with the "soccer widow" immortalized in her red-and-white-painted garden. - Brett Rogers, extract from the foreword to the catalog for the exhibition In Soccer Wonderland, British Council Visual Arts, 1995.
Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1994
28.5 × 22.5cm
168 pages
ISBN: 978-1873968307
Photographer Julian Germain has long been a soccer fan, and in this photo book Julian explores soccer culture, presented not as a series of classically composed images, but as disparate photographs from a personal scrapbook.
Julian Germain belongs to a generation of British photographers who have begun to question many of the assumptions of documentary practice, a genre long considered the "backbone" of British photography. The normative approach to subject matter (usually limited to a handful of worthy subjects such as war, poverty and the downtrodden) and notions of "objectivity" have been seriously undermined over the past decade. By adopting a series of different authors' points of view in a variety of media (from large black-and-white prints to tiny, brightly colored snapshots), Germain offers his audience a multi-layered view of soccer. As in a good play, we are encouraged to consider the subject from different angles - we can, for example, choose at any given moment to empathize with the young soccer fan obsessed with her hero, or with the "soccer widow" immortalized in her red-and-white-painted garden. - Brett Rogers, extract from the foreword to the catalog for the exhibition In Soccer Wonderland, British Council Visual Arts, 1995.
Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1994
28.5 × 22.5cm
168 pages
ISBN: 978-1873968307
