The East End In Colour 1980-1990

by Tim Brown

•Tim Brown's color negatives, most taken between shifts driving London Underground trains, capture East London during one of the area's most extraordinary decades of transformation


•Includes a Q&A with the photographer


•The first volume The East End in Colour 1960-1980 by David Granick (published Feb 2018) reached no. 1 best-selling photography book on Amazon UK, and was reprinted three times in the first year with over 9,000 copies sold in the first 12 months


Following the sell-out success of The East End in Colour 1960-1980, this book by a new photographer, Tim Brown, continues from 1980 as the regeneration of the East End accelerates to an unprecedented degree. Brown, a driver on London Underground's Central Line, spent his spare time photographing the city's financial center and transport hubs, including the Docklands area just before the developers seized control of this vast industrial wasteland. His never-before-seen color images were discovered by photographer Chris Dorley-Brown who edited and curated both this book and David Granick's The East End in Colour 1960-1980. Like Granick's photographs, Tim Brown's book of understated (and never-before-seen) color images serves as a nostalgic record of a corner of the capital that has changed almost beyond recognition.

Genres: Photography

128 pages, Hardcover

Published July 15, 2019

About the author

Tim W. Brown was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. In 1983 he graduated summa cum laude from Northern Illinois University with a degree in American studies. He is the author of four published novels, Deconstruction Acres (1997), Left of the Loop (2001), Walking Man (2008), and Second Acts (2010). His fiction, poetry and nonfiction have appeared in over two hundred publications, including Another Chicago Magazine, The Bloomsbury Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Chelsea, Chiron Review, Colorado Review, The Fiction Review, The Ledge, Main Street Rag, New Observations, Oyez Review, Pleiades, Poetry Project Newsletter, Rain Taxi, Rockford Review, Slipstream, Small Press Review, and Storyhead. A long-time resident of Chicago, where he was a fixture in that citys literary scene as a writer, performer, and publisher of Tomorrow Magazine (1982-1999), Brown moved to New York in 2003. He currently earns his living as a writer at Bloomberg."

Reviews

[Steve Angelkov · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a wonderful series. Some absolute gems in here around the railway network stations and canary wharf.

The quality of the book is outstanding.

[Joey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely book. Nice pictures of the East End. Interesting to see places you recognise now and how they use to be.