{"product_id":"frontline-bradford-1984-85-by-victor-wedderburn","title":"*SIGNED PRE-ORDER* FRONTLINE: BRADFORD 1984\/85 by Victor Wedderburn","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by Anne McNeill\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith texts by Lanre Bakare and Carol Tulloch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 978-1-907112-77-5\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSIGNED PRE-ORDER UNTIL Publication date 5 November 2026 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHardback clothbound\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat 26 x 22.5cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIllustrations 86 colour\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlack life, style and community of 1980s Bradford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrontline: Bradford 1984\/85\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s3\"\u003e will be launched on:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThursday 5 November\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e at Autograph gallery in London, 6-8pm \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/2002795148202?aff=oddtdtcreator\" title=\"Eventbrite Frontline Bradford London book launch at Autograph\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRSVP HERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTuesday 10 November\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e at Loading Bay in Bradford, 6-8pm \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/2002796459123?aff=oddtdtcreator\" title=\"Eventbrite bradford photobook launch\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eRSVP HERE\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Frontline is a timely and powerful book of photographs documenting African-Caribbean life in Bradford in the early 1980s.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eWedderburn’s photographs are an invaluable time capsule that capture an unseen side of Black Britain, that are hard, yet soft and disarming, telling a story of the community that Wedderburn knew from the inside out. These images add yet another important missing chapter to the history of Black Britain.” \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003eMark Sealy, Director Autograph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eVictor Wedderburn bought his first camera in the early 1980s and set about photographing his friends and neighbours in Manningham, Bradford – an area home to a large Caribbean migrant population. Nicknamed the ‘Frontline’, because of the racial hostility faced by residents, the area developed a negative reputation. Wedderburn’s images instead show an intimate portrait of a community shaped by resilience, friendship, enterprise, creativity and style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eShot in vivid colour, the photographs are in contrast to the grey industrial grit that has dominated representations of northern cities. A self-taught photographer, Wedderburn’s social-documentary-style of photographs give an insider portrait of a city and a Black population that has been rarely represented in mainstream media. His photographs burst with energy, vibrancy and life, depicting the Frontline as a place full of activism, music, creativity, style and fashion. A place where generations hang out at cafes, hire films from the local video shop, where romances blossom, where endless football games are won and lost, where men shoot the breeze over a game of pinball, and where cars, a source of pride for their owners, are characters in their own right. All to the beat of sound systems playing reggae, roots, and dub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe late discovery of Wedderburn’s photographs, kept in plastic bags and negative folders for forty years, gained their well-deserved public recognition as one of the key exhibitions during Bradford’s tenure as UK City of Culture 2025. \u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFrontline: Bradford 1984\/85\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e, Wedderburn’s first photobook, is an irreplaceable visual record of a period in British history, with a distinctive contribution to documentary and vernacular photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFrontline: Bradford 1984\/85\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e features essays from writer and professor \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarol Tulloch\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e and journalist \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanre Bakare\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, with a foreword by renowned photography curator and editor of the book \u003cspan class=\"s2\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne McNeill\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e. 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