Chris Killip
Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire

Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire

© Chris Killip

Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire
Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire
ArtistBritish, 1946–2020
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire
Date1981, printed April 26, 2015
Place depictedSkinningrove, England
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 × 19 13/16 in. (40 × 50.4 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 23 3/4 in. (50.4 × 60.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number2016.195
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

A century after John Thomson’s Street Life in London, Chris Killip
photographed the working classes of the North of England. Focusing on the
industrial and mining regions hit hard by the economic upheaval of the Margaret
Thatcher years, he pictured people caught in a system that neglected them. Killip
included this image in his book of photographs on disenfranchised Brits taken in
the 1970s and 1980s,
In Flagrante (1988),
one of the most significant photobooks of the late 20th century. This is no
beautiful picture of the famous British seaside or a sentimental image of the
poor, but a bleak portrayal of faceless people in a fractured community. Killip
was able to offer a unique perspective since he lived among his subjects and
knew them well.




ProvenanceThe artist; [Yossi Milo Gallery, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower center: Crabs and people, Skinningrove, N. Yorkshire, 1981 // Chris Killip made this print on Foma paper on April 26 2015
Signed in pencil, verso, lower center: Chris Killip 2015
Signed in pencil, verso, lower center: Chris Killip 2015

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