78-87 London Youth
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| author = Derek Ridgers
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| subject = Youth culture in London
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| publisher = Damiana
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| pub_date = 2013
| media_type = Hardcover
| pages = 160
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78-87 London Youth is a 2012 photography book by British photographer Derek Ridgers.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-29 |title=Book Shelf: The London Youth Portraits 1978-1987 by Derek Ridgers |url=https://fashiongrunge.com/2024/08/book-shelf-the-london-youth-portraits-1978-1987-by-derek-ridgers/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=Fashion Grunge |language=en-US}}
Synopsis
The book is a collection of photographs of young Londoners taken by the photographer from 1978 to 1988. It especially focuses on the alternative youth scene, from punk through to the birth of acid house music. It showcases the creativity and individuality of the young.{{Cite web |last=Brauer |first=Laura |date=2014-04-04 |title=Exhibit This: The Photography Shows and Book Releases of the Month |url=https://rangefinderonline.com/news-features/industry-news/exhibit-this-the-photography-shows-and-book-releases-of-the-month/ |access-date=2025-01-03 |website=Rangefinder |language=en}}
Reception
In The Observer Sean O'Hagan described the work as a "visual anthropology of a bygone era" and wrote that "hopefully this is only the first instalment in a much bigger series devoted to Ridgers's invaluable archive of London youth culture in these decades". The work was also reviewed in The Daily Telegraph.{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10605295/The-man-who-photographed-Britains-youth-tribes.html|title=The man who photographed Britain's youth tribes|website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=3 February 2014 }}{{Cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |last2=O’Hagan |first2=Sean |date=2014-03-21 |title=78-87 London Youth review – 'the document of a stranger, more tribal country' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/21/derek-ridgers-london-youth-review-stranger-more-tribal |access-date=2025-01-03 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}