Suburbia - The Familiar and Forgotten

About the author

Warren Kirk has been a documentary photographer for 40 years. His previous books are the acclaimed Westography, Suburbia, and Northside.

William McInnes is an award-winning Australian writer and actor. William grew up in Queensland and now lives in Melbourne with his two children.

Summary

From the photographer behind the acclaimed Westography

The sentiment that flows through these images is a balm to the knowledge that time is passing and things will change — William McInnes.

Warren Kirk's photos will strike a chord with anyone who's grown up in the Australian suburbs in the past 50 years. Somehow both achingly familiar and unimaginably strange, these luminous images continue his 30-year project of documenting a way of life that is slowly disappearing, along with the people who lived it.

Taken with loving attention and considerable skill, and with the utmost respect for the people and places that appear in them, Kirk's photos of shops and houses, of gardens and lounge-rooms, of people surrounded by the things they love, are beautifully evocative and powerfully nostalgic.

Foreword

From the photographer behind the acclaimed Westography.

Additional text

‘Kirk [is] creating is an archive of how Melbourne once looked. What that picture will look like in another decade or two is anyone’s guess. For Kirk it is about documenting a particular reality but it’s also creating objects of beauty.’

Product details

• Authors: Warren Kirk, Kirk Warren, William Mcinnes
• Assisted by: William Mcinnes (Introduction)
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781911617884
• ISBN: 978-1-911617-88-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Australia, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, Social and cultural history, Places and peoples: general and pictorial works