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Photographer Julian Germain has long been a football fan, and in this photo book, Julian explores football culture—presented not as a series of conventionally composed images, but as a collection of disparate photographs taken from a personal album.
Julian Germain belongs to a generation of British photographers who began to challenge many of the assumptions underlying documentary photography, a genre long considered the “backbone” of British photography. The normative approach to subject matter (generally limited to a handful of worthy subjects such as war, poverty, and the oppressed) and notions of “objectivity” have been seriously challenged over the past decade. By presenting a range of perspectives from different artists across various mediums (from large-scale black-and-white prints to tiny, vividly 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 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, excerpt from the foreword to the exhibition catalog 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 football fan, and in this photo book, Julian explores football culture—presented not as a series of conventionally composed images, but as a collection of disparate photographs taken from a personal album.
Julian Germain belongs to a generation of British photographers who began to challenge many of the assumptions underlying documentary photography, a genre long considered the “backbone” of British photography. The normative approach to subject matter (generally limited to a handful of worthy subjects such as war, poverty, and the oppressed) and notions of “objectivity” have been seriously challenged over the past decade. By presenting a range of perspectives from different artists across various mediums (from large-scale black-and-white prints to tiny, vividly 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 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, excerpt from the foreword to the exhibition catalog In Soccer Wonderland, British Council Visual Arts, 1995.
Published by Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1994
28.5 × 22.5cm
168 pages
ISBN: 978-1873968307
