Looking for Looking for Love
Gareth McConnell
2014
Looking for Looking for Love
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A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, ...
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Looking for Looking for Love
Gareth McConnell
2014
London: Sorika
Unpaginated [140 pages]
24.5 × 19.5 cm
Edition of 250; signed and numbered 116/250

A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, Merseyside, between 1984 and 1987. Wood’s original publication could only include a fraction of the thousands of photographs he made at the club; to honour his subjects and convey the scale of the project, he created a large collage from the images, later reproduced as a double-page spread. McConnell’s book takes this lost collage as its point of departure, faithfully recreating its forms while transforming their scale and sequence. Scanned from McConnell’s own copy of Wood’s book and printed in vibrant risograph, the fragmented, enlarged images escape the confines of the photographic frame, generating a dynamic flow of exuberance, nostalgia, desire, and nightlife energy.

London: Sorika
Unpaginated [140 pages]
24.5 × 19.5 cm
Edition of 250; signed and numbered 116/250

A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, Merseyside, between 1984 and 1987. Wood’s original publication could only include a fraction of the thousands of photographs he made at the club; to honour his subjects and convey the scale of the project, he created a large collage from the images, later reproduced as a double-page spread. McConnell’s book takes this lost collage as its point of departure, faithfully recreating its forms while transforming their scale and sequence. Scanned from McConnell’s own copy of Wood’s book and printed in vibrant risograph, the fragmented, enlarged images escape the confines of the photographic frame, generating a dynamic flow of exuberance, nostalgia, desire, and nightlife energy.

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A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, Merseyside, between 1984 and 1987. Wood’s original publication could only include a fraction of the thousands of photographs he made at the club; to honour his subjects and convey the scale of the project, he created a large collage from the images, later reproduced as a double-page spread. McConnell’s book takes this lost collage as its point of departure, faithfully recreating its forms while transforming their scale and sequence. Scanned from McConnell’s own copy of Wood’s book and printed in vibrant risograph, the fragmented, enlarged images escape the confines of the photographic frame, generating a dynamic flow of exuberance, nostalgia, desire, and nightlife energy.

London: Sorika
Unpaginated [140 pages]
24.5 × 19.5 cm
Edition of 250; signed and numbered 116/250

A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, Merseyside, between 1984 and 1987. Wood’s original publication could only include a fraction of the thousands of photographs he made at the club; to honour his subjects and convey the scale of the project, he created a large collage from the images, later reproduced as a double-page spread. McConnell’s book takes this lost collage as its point of departure, faithfully recreating its forms while transforming their scale and sequence. Scanned from McConnell’s own copy of Wood’s book and printed in vibrant risograph, the fragmented, enlarged images escape the confines of the photographic frame, generating a dynamic flow of exuberance, nostalgia, desire, and nightlife energy.

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A tribute to one of the seminal photobooks of the 1980s, Looking for Looking for Love reworks Tom Wood’s Looking for Love (1989), which documented the clientele of the Chelsea Reach Nightclub in New Brighton, Merseyside, between 1984 and 1987. Wood’s original publication could only include a fraction of the thousands of photographs he made at the club; to honour his subjects and convey the scale of the project, he created a large collage from the images, later reproduced as a double-page spread. McConnell’s book takes this lost collage as its point of departure, faithfully recreating its forms while transforming their scale and sequence. Scanned from McConnell’s own copy of Wood’s book and printed in vibrant risograph, the fragmented, enlarged images escape the confines of the photographic frame, generating a dynamic flow of exuberance, nostalgia, desire, and nightlife energy.

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