Derek Ridgers - When We Were Young: Club and Street Portraits 1978-1987 *Signed*

Publisher: Photoworks
Year: 2004
Format: Softcover
Edition: 1st Edition, 1,000 copies - Signed By Derek Ridgers
Condition: Very Good *shelf-wear to cover edges*
Pages: 160
Size: 240mm x 165mm

Over a period of ten years, from 1978 to 1987, British photographer Derek Ridgers painstakingly recorded the young inhabitants of London’s streets and Soho’s fashionable club scene. His resulting portraits of skinheads and the extravagant and exotic figures of the post-punk, ‘New Romantic’ era are a remarkable and fragile social document, a record of an incredibly inventive yet excessive youth culture. Many of Ridgers’ young subjects, such as Boy George and Steve Strange, went on to achieve fame and wider notoriety, but here they exist together in a self-regarding but vulnerable sub-culture, wan angels of the London night.

This book brings together Ridgers’ extraordinary photographs for the first time. Part photography monograph, part fashion history, part momento mori, this beautiful book also encapsulates the essence of Ridgers’ work and his influential role as quiet observer and collector of British street style.

Includes an essay by Val Williams plus an autobiographical text by Derek Ridgers.