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Chris Killip

photographer

Manx[1] b. 11 July 1946, Douglas, Isle of Man[1] d. 13 October 2020[1,2] active 1964–2020

Christopher David Killip (1946–2020) was a renowned Manx photographer known for his evocative black and white images of people and places in the United Kingdom. He began his career as an assistant to advertising photographer Adrian Flowers in London before going freelance in 1969. In 1975, he received a fellowship from Northern Arts to photograph the northeast of England, leading to his seminal work 'In Flagrante' (1988), which documented the industrial decline and working-class communities of Tyneside during the 1970s and 1980s. Killip was a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017. His work has been held in major collections including the Tate, MoMA, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.[1,2,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37]

  • industrial decline
  • working-class communities
  • Tyneside
  • documentary photography

Books

  1. Chris Killip In flagrante 1490
    In flagrante
    Chris Killip
    €241.00
  2. Chris Killip Pirelli work 1070
    Pirelli work
    Chris Killip
    €35.00

Works by Chris Killip

  • 1988 In Flagrante Secker & Warburg · book · English · ISBN 0-436-23358-4 First published in 1988; includes text by John Berger and Sylvia Grant.
  • 1980 Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx Arts Council of Great Britain · book · ISBN 0-7287-0187-1 With text by Killip and John Berger.
  • 2001 Chris Killip 55 Phaidon Press · book · ISBN 0-7148-4028-9 Text by Gerry Badger.
  • 2007 Pirelli Work Steidl · book · ISBN 978-3-86930-961-3 Photographs of a tyre factory in Burton.
  • 2009 Here Comes Everybody: Chris Killip's Irish Photographs Thames & Hudson · book · ISBN 978-0-500-54365-8 Photographs of pilgrimages and rural scenes in Ireland.
  • 2011 Seacoal Steidl · book · ISBN 3-86930-256-9
  • 2012 Arbeit / Work Museum Folkwang; Steidl · book · ISBN 978-3-86930-457-1 A retrospective. Texts by Killip, David Campany and Ute Eskildsen.
  • 2015 Isle of Man Revisited Steidl · book · ISBN 978-3-86930-959-0 Second edition of Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx.
  • 2016 In Flagrante Two Steidl · book · ISBN 978-3-86930-960-6 Second edition of the photographs from In Flagrante.
  • 2020 The Station Steidl · book · ISBN 978-3-95829-616-9
  • 2022 Chris Killip Thames & Hudson · book · ISBN 978-0500025581 A retrospective.
  • 2024 Skinningrove Stanley/Barker · book

Exhibitions

  • Two Views, Two Cities. Huddersfield and Bury St Edmunds solo
  • 1984 Seacoal Side Gallery, Newcastle · solo
  • 1985 Another Country Serpentine Gallery, London · solo
  • 1988 In Flagrante Victoria and Albert Museum, London · solo
  • 1990 Working at Pirelli Victoria and Albert Museum, London · solo
  • 1991 Chris Killip Retrospective Palais de Tokyo, Paris · solo
  • 1996 The Last Art Show Jarrow Bede Gallery, Jarrow · solo
  • 1997 Chris Killip Photographs 1971–96 Manx Museum, Douglas · solo
  • 2000 Chris Killip: Sixty Photographs Old Post Office, Berlin · solo
  • 2012 Arbeit/Work Museum Folkwang, Essen · solo
  • 2012 What Happened / Great Britain 1970–1990 Le Bal, Paris · solo
  • 2017 Now Then: Chris Killip and the making of In Flagrante J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles · solo
  • 2020 The Last Ships Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle on Tyne · solo
  • 1989 The Art of Photography, 1839–1989 Royal Academy, London · group
  • 2006 In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century Barbican Arts Centre, London · group
  • 2008 No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987 Hayward Gallery; Ujazdów Castle; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery; Aberystwyth Arts Centre, London; Warsaw; Carlisle; Aberystwyth · group
  • 2010 Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography National Museum, Kraków · group

Awards

  • 1989 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
  • 2013 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (Shortlisted) Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation
  • 2020 Dr. Erich Salomon Award German Society for Photography

References

  1. Sean O'Hagan. Chris Killip obituary. The Guardian. 2020 link
  2. Sean O'Hagan. Chris Killip, hard-hitting photographer of Britain's working class, dies aged 74. The Guardian. 2020 link
  3. Justin Carville. Chris Killip. Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Photography. Routledge. 2006
  4. Tom Seymour. British photographer Chris Killip remembered after battle with cancer. The Art Newspaper. 2020 link
  5. Chris Killip: 'Remarkable' photographer dies aged 74. BBC News. 2020 link
  6. Martin Parr; Gerry Badger. The Photobook: A History. Phaidon. 2006
  7. Clive Dilnot. Chris Killip's Portraits of the Pirelli Workforce. Pirelli Work
  8. Robert Ayers. One of the greatest photography books ever published – Chris Killip's In Flagrante. askyfilledwithshootingstars.com. 2009 link
  9. Chris Killip. What Happened. Pirelli Work
  10. Liz Jobey. Photographer Chris Killip: return to a ritual landscape. The Guardian. 2009 link
  11. Sean O'Hagan. Moshpit mayhem: The northern club where punks rampaged to Hellbastard. The Guardian. 2020 link
  12. Ayla Angelos. An exclusive chat with photographer Chris Killip and his son. It's Nice That. 2020 link
  13. Ayla Angelos. Markéta Luskačová's Chiswick Women's Aid 1976–77 is finally brought to light after 44 years. It's Nice That. 2020 link
  14. Chris Killip 55. Phaidon Press. 2001
  15. Mark Haworth-Booth. Chris Killip: Recognition for a great photographer. The Guardian. 2020 link
  16. What Happened / Great Britain 1970–1990. Le Bal. 2012 link
  17. Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante. J. Paul Getty Museum. 2017 link
  18. Diane Smyth. Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante. British Journal of Photography. 2017 link
  19. Carolina A. Miranda. Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s. Los Angeles Times. 2017 link
  20. Chris Killip: The Last Ships. Laing Art Gallery. 2020 link
  21. The Station by Chris Killip. Martin Parr Foundation. 2020 link
  22. Kate Bush; Mark Sladen. In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century. Black Dog. 2006
  23. David Alan Mellor. No such thing as society: Photography in Britain 1967–87. Hayward. 2007
  24. Simon Bainbridge. Brits Abroad. British Journal of Photography. 2010 link
  25. Chris Killip's photos capture the freedom of punk in 80s north east England. Dazed. 2020 link
  26. Chris Killip's 1980s photographs of the fishing village of Skinningrove. The Times. 2024 link
  27. Kalum Carter. 'Skinningrove' is the last publication Chris Killip worked on – and it features some of his finest photography. digitalcameraworld. 2024 link
  28. Chris Killip. Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. 1989 link
  29. Sean O'Hagan. Deutsche Börse 2013 – a shortlist that's short of photographers. The Guardian. 2012 link
  30. Photographer Chris Killip given an international honour. Isle of Man Today. 2020 link
  31. Photographer Chris Killip is being honoured with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award. DGPh. 2020 link
  32. The Station. Steidl. 2020 link
  33. Chris Killip's photos capture the freedom of punk in 80s north east England. Dazed. 2020 link
  34. Chris Killip's 1980s photographs of the fishing village of Skinningrove. The Times. 2024 link
  35. Kalum Carter. 'Skinningrove' is the last publication Chris Killip worked on – and it features some of his finest photography. digitalcameraworld. 2024 link
  36. Chris Killip. Thames & Hudson. 2022
  37. Your Search Results. Victoria and Albert Museum link