Ray's a Laugh [SIGNED by Billingham]

London: Mack, 2024. First Edition. Hardcover. New. First published in 1996, Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century... Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham’s often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham’s original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham’s training as a painter: it constitutes a ‘director’s cut’ and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era." Signed by Billingham for this issue to a slip glued to the inside back cover. 4to (32cm). Embossed linen hardcover, pp. 320. New, in publisher's shrinkwrap. Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II.