The wedding Book

The Wedding. Photographs by Nick Waplington.

Essay by Irvine Welsh. Loving, sparring, partying, lazing, cavorting, drinking, smacking, preening-the boisterous families crowding the canvas of British photographer Nick Waplington's The Wedding have spirit to spare. British writer Irvine Welsh, author of Acid House, contributes a narrative composed of the voices of the families and his own insights. 73 four-color photographs, 9 1/4 x 13, 80 pages. Hardcover.

"Always, Mr. Waplington celebrates the beauty of the ordinary, and his images constitute and intense representation of the power of love."

Christine Schwartz Hartley, New York Times Book Review

"In their lack of pretense or grandiosity, these photographs are beautifully, terrifyingly descriptive of the banal wonder of the family at home. No matter how squalid or depressing the surroundings, there is an inevitable vitality here-love, too despite all the exhaustion and decay. These are images as heartbreaking as any in contemporary photography, all the more powerful because thay are so unself-dramatizing-as quietly hopeful of achieving a certain dismal truth as say, Philip Larkin's poetry."

Justin Spring, Artforum