Living room Book

Living Room. Photographs by Nick Wapplington; Essays by John Berger and Richard Avedon. Waplington has produced a documentary "sitcom" celebrating the workingclass family that manages to be compassionate and illuminating at the same time. 50 fourcolor photographs, 12 1/2 X 9 1/2, pages.

"In this striking departure from standard socialdocumentary photography,... form complements content: the antics of his uninhibited subjects are at times barely contained within the frame, lending these unpretentious glances at domestic life a fresh, irreverent verve...Living Room is evidence of a startling new talent.

Camera & Darkroom

" Waplington's color images are lively and believable because in making them he became part of these surroundings, seizing the chaos, the fun, the bad times , the movement... Waplington has avoided formulas of composition, some of these imagesof bodies lunging, leaping, falling and even hanging upside downseem to have taken on their own antiformulaic formulas."

The New Yorker

Nick Waplington is a major new discovery in the world of photography. For his first book, this prize-winning young artist has produced a documentary "sitcom" celebrating the working-class family, offering lushly colored glimpses of "the communal spirit." 50 photographs.