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The Longest Way Round

Artist
Chris Dorley-Brown
Price
$65.00
Date
2015
Publisher
Overlapse
Format
Artists' Books
Size
21.8 × 27 cm
Length
168 pages
Genre
Photography, History
Description

A visual investigation of the author’s family history, The Longest Way Round is a construct of historical images woven together with new photographs. Uncovering a treasure trove of archive material not intended for the family album, Dorley-Brown’s book presents a multi-layered alternative narrative for the course of events that shaped the late 20th century.

Two Londoners born in 1920 embark on a series of journeys shaped by war, romance, and subsequent settlement in a seaside paradise. Unable and unwilling to recall their most traumatic experiences for their five children, a box of photographs, film negatives and letters was bequeathed to the youngest child ‐ a photographer. He forms a new narrative with the archive, integrating his own pictures made in the UK and on travels through Europe that follow in the footsteps of his mother and father.

During World War II Dorley-Brown’s parents Peter and Brenda were not yet married, but had known each other as childhood friends. At age 19 Peter volunteered as a heavy artillery sergeant and survived the Battle of Crete, four years as a prisoner of war in German stalag camps, and a death march of more than 500 miles in extreme weather near the end of the war. Some of his photographs that were confiscated while a POW appear in this book. While captive at Stalag VIIA near Munich, Peter befriended a guard – Conrad Barnack – the son of Oskar Barnack who invented the Leica 35mm camera. Peter and Conrad would later reconnect after the war was over.

Chris Dorley-Brown’s contemporary images resonate the effects of his family history on his own outlook decades later. This intimate book addresses subjects of personal identity and memory, and offers potential for a sense of closure for the author.

London-based Chris Dorley-Brown is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, media technologist and archivist. He has published and exhibited widely and his work is held in public collections of the Wellcome Trust, Museum of London, BBC Archives, London Borough of Hackney Archives and Tower Hamlets Archives.

Printed in Germany by optimal media.

Softcover, section‐sewn with exposed binding.
French fold dust jacket / poster.

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