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South Wales Housing Estate 1986
Clarke, Stephen
Clarke, Stephen
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2020-05-21
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The photographs for South Wales Housing Estate 1986 were taken during the third year of Clarke’s undergraduate course in Fine Art at Newport College of Art. These pictures were taken in response to Clarke’s first visit to San Diego, Southern California, in 1985. The suburbs of San Diego had made an impression on Clarke; spread across the landscape these were man-made environments of houses, gardens, and parked cars. To some extent, British housing estates mirror the aspirational developments in the US suburbs but on a less ambitious level. Clarke had been made aware of the work of the New Topographics photographers – in particular Lewis Baltz, Robert Adams and Joe Deal – who had documented the housing developments in the American Southwest. Clarke’s photographs of the British housing estate prefigure his work in San Diego that has since been reproduced in publications and exhibitions.
South Wales Housing Estate 1986 was published by Café Royal Books in an edition of 250. It was edited by Craig Atkinson, founder of Café Royal Books.
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Clarke, S. (2020). South Wales Housing Estate 1986. Southport: Café Royal Books
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Composed of 18 black&white photographs taken in 1986. It is included in a Café Royal Books box set of 100 photobooks titled Archive Five, and is in the collection of major institutions. The photobook South Wales Housing Estate 1986 was exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in the exhibition Café Royal Books: Documentary, Zines and Subversion (14 April-12 June 2022); and at Stills: Centre for Photography, Edinburgh as part of the exhibition titled Café Royal Books (10 November 2023 – 10 February 2024); and at Impressions Gallery, Bradford (12 September – 30 November 2024) in the exhibition titled Café Royal Books.
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