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Santa's coming to town

Title

Santa's coming to town

Subject

Fine Art

Description

Inspired by the tinsel scarlet and reds of Christmas shop windows, using colour for this set of photographs is a new departure for Summerfield. Need and desire are wilfully blurred in a crimson haze throughout shopping centres, all the more garish when seen beside the muted colours of rough sleepers in streets and doorways. The consumerism he shows is resistant to examination, to questions like: “What good comes of this?”These photographs show a different but equally shocking contrast — the ever more discordant commercialism, with glossy and brash store windows, shopping mall displays, the crass glitter of the festive season. This is a photographic sermon, to invite us to compassion.

Creator

Paddy Summerfield

Publisher

Paddy Summerfield via Blurb

Date

2018

Format

Soft back, premium semi-gloss paper, printed by Blurb.co.uk

Dimensions

20 x 24 x 0.5

Number of Pages

19 pages 38 sides

Number of images

26 pictures including cover

Edition Size

20

Place of Publication

Oxford UK via Blurb

Designer

Paddy Summerfield

Editor

Paddy Summerfield

Printer

Blurb.co.uk

ISBN

n/a

Website

www.paddysummerfield.com

URL Link to project

n/a

Where to buy

from Paddy Summerfield via CONTACT on the website www.paddysummerield.com

Links to reviews

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/salutary-seasonal-spectacle

Collection

Fine Art

Tags

Christmas** consumerism**justice** street people"" shopping**festival**inequality

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