Chris Killip#Collections

Killip was born in Douglas, Isle of Man; his parents ran the Highlander pub. He left school at 16 to work as a trainee hotel manager, while also working as a beach photographer.{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-15| first=Tom | last=Seymour | title=British photographer Chris Killip remembered after battle with cancer|url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/british-photographer-chris-killip-remembered-after-battle-with-cancer|website=The Art Newspaper|date=14 October 2020 }} In 1964, aged 18, he moved to London where he worked as an assistant to the advertising photographer Adrian Flowers. He soon went freelance, along with periods working in his father's pub on the Isle of Man. In 1969, Killip ended his commercial work to concentrate on his own photography. The work from this time was eventually published by the Arts Council as Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx in 1980 with a text by John Berger. In 1972, he was commissioned by the Arts Council to photograph Bury St Edmunds and Huddersfield, and in 1975 he won a two-year fellowship from Northern Arts to photograph the northeast of England. He moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to pursue this work, to which Creative Camera devoted most of its May 1977 issue.{{efn|In writing "Creative Camera magazine devoted an entire issue to his work in progress", Sean O'Hagan slightly exaggerates: the issue also includes a plate by Bill Brandt, potted descriptions of many books, and more.}}

In 1977, Killip became a co-founder,{{cite news|access-date=2020-10-15|title=Chris Killip: 'Remarkable' photographer dies aged 74|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-54545641|newspaper=BBC News|date=14 October 2020}} exhibition curator, and advisor at the Side Gallery, Newcastle, and worked as its first director for 18 months. He produced a body of work from his photographs in the northeast of England, published in 1988 as In Flagrante with a text by Berger and Sylvia Grant. These black and white images, "portraits of Tyneside's working class communities amongst the signifiers of the region's declining industrial landscape", mostly made on 4×5 film, are now recognised as among the most important visual records of living in 1980s Britain. Gerry Badger describes the photographs as "taken from a point of view that opposed everything [Thatcher] stood for", and the book as "about community", "a dark, pessimistic journey".Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2 (London: Phaidon, 2006; {{ISBN|0-7148-4433-0}}), 299.

The book In Flagrante was well received on its publication in 1988, but Killip's kind of black and white documentation of the underclass was going out of fashion quickly in Britain, as photographers used colour to show consumerism and for consciously and explicitly artistic purposes.Clive Dilnot, "Chris Killip's Portraits of the Pirelli Workforce", Pirelli Work, pp. 65–85. In Flagrante was reproduced in February 2009 within one of Errata Editions' "Books on Books". In a review of this reproduction, Robert Ayers describes the original as "one of the greatest photography books ever published".Robert Ayers, "[http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=678 One of the greatest photography books ever published – Chris Killip's In Flagrante] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017181029/http://www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=678 |date=17 October 2020 }}", askyfilledwithshootingstars.com. Accessed 8 September 2009.

In 1988, Killip was commissioned by Pirelli UK to photograph its tyre factory in Burton; agreement on this was reached in April the next year, whereupon Killip started work. Attempting to use available light in a darkened factory in which work was done on a black product, he was at first unsuccessful, but in June he switched to flash and a large-format camera and photographed for three more months. The resulting work was exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) in September 1989; it was published in book form by Ute Eskildsen/Steidl in 2007.The book: Pirelli Work. Account of the photography: Killip, "What Happened", Pirelli Work, pp. 62–63.

From 1992 until 2004, Killip photographed pilgrimages and other scenes in rural Ireland; the result was published in 2009 by Thames & Hudson as Here Comes Everybody.Liz Jobey, "[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/20/photography-book-chris-killip Photographer Chris Killip: return to a ritual landscape]", The Guardian, 20 April 2009. Accessed 19 September 2009.

In 1991, he moved to the USA, having been given a post at Harvard University as a visiting lecturer. He was made a tenured professor in 1994, and remained as a professor of visual and environmental studies until 2017.

Arbeit/Work was published by Steidl in 2012 to accompany Killip's retrospective exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen.

Killip had a son, Matthew, with the photographer Markéta Luskačová.{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O’Hagan|access-date=2020-03-31|title=Moshpit mayhem: The northern club where punks rampaged to Hellbastard|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/31/moshpit-mayhem-station-punks-gateshead-chris-killip-hellbastard|newspaper=The Guardian|date=31 March 2020|issn=0261-3077|via=www.theguardian.com}}{{cite web|first=Ayla|last=Angelos|access-date=2020-10-14|title=An exclusive chat with photographer Chris Killip and his son – who uncovered a lost archive of an 80s punk venue|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/chris-killip-the-station-photography-150420|website=It's Nice That|date=15 April 2020}}{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-15|title=Markéta Luskačová's Chiswick Women's Aid 1976–77 is finally brought to light after 44 years|first=Ayla|last=Angelos|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/marketa-luskacova-chiswick-womens-aid-1976-77-photography-31720|website=It's Nice That|date=31 July 2020}}.

After his appointment to a post at Harvard, Killip lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the rest of his life, in 2000 marrying Mary Halpenny, who also worked at Harvard.

Killip died on 13 October 2020 from lung cancer. He was 74.

• Two Views, Two Cities. Huddersfield and Bury St Edmunds, 1970s
• Seacoal, Side Gallery (Newcastle) and subsequent tour, 1984Chronology in Chris Killip 55, pp. 126–27.''
• Another Country, Serpentine Gallery (London). Photographs of northeast England by Killip and Graham Smith, 1985
• Art Institute of Chicago, 1986
• In Flagrante, Victoria and Albert Museum (London) and subsequent tour of Europe, 1988
• Working at Pirelli, Victoria and Albert Museum (London), 1990{{cite news|first1=Mark|last1=Haworth-Booth|authorlink=Mark Haworth-Booth|access-date=2020-10-19|title=Chris Killip: Recognition for a great photographer|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/16/chris-killip-recognition-for-a-great-photographer|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 October 2020|issn=0261-3077}}
• Chris Killip Retrospective, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), 1991
• The Last Art Show, Jarrow Bede Gallery (Jarrow), 1996. Photographs of Jarrow.
• Chris Killip Photographs 1971–96, Manx Museum (Douglas), 1997
• Chris Killip: Sixty Photographs, Old Post Office (Berlin), 2000
• Les rencontres d'Arles festival, France.
• Arbeit/Work, Museum Folkwang (Essen, Germany), 2012. A retrospective.
• What Happened / Great Britain 1970–1990. Le Bal (Paris), May–August 2012."[https://web.archive.org/web/20150311223753/http://en.le-bal.com/fr/mh/chris-killip-what-happened-great-britain-1970-1990-2/ What Happened / Great Britain 1970–1990]", Le Bal. Retrieved by the Wayback Machine on 11 March 2015.
• Now Then: Chris Killip and the making of "In Flagrante", J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), May–August 2017."[https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/chris_killip/ Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante]", J. Paul Getty Museum. Accessed 19 October 2020.Diane Smyth, "[https://www.bjp-online.com/2017/06/now-then-chris-killip-and-the-making-of-in-flagrante/ Now Then: Chris Killip and the Making of In Flagrante]", British Journal of Photography, 6 June 2017. Accessed 19 October 2020.Carolina A. Miranda, "[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cam-chris-killip-getty-museum-20170721-htmlstory.html Seven photos, seven stories: Chris Killip on capturing the declining industrial towns of England in the '70s and '80s]", Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2017. Accessed 19 October 2020.
• The Last Ships, Laing Art Gallery (Newcastle on Tyne) "[https://laingartgallery.org.uk/whats-on/chris-killip-the-last-ships Chris Killip: The Last Ships]", Laing Art Gallery. Accessed 18 October 2020.{{efn|reference="[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMzN35AyZs8 Chris Killip: The Last Ships Q&A]" (three-minute video), Tyne and Wear Museums, hosted by Youtube.}}
• The Station, Martin Parr Foundation (Bristol), September–December 2020."[https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/exhibitions/the-station-by-chris-killip/ The Station by Chris Killip]", Martin Parr Foundation. Accessed 18 October 2020.

• The Art of Photography, 1839–1989, Royal Academy (London), 1989.
• In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century. Barbican Arts Centre, London, 2006.Kate Bush and Mark Sladen, eds, In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century. London: Black Dog, 2006. {{ISBN|978-1-904772-57-6}}.
• No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987, Hayward Gallery (London); Ujazdów Castle (Warsaw), November 2008 – January 2009; Tullie House (Carlisle), May–July 2008; and Aberystwyth Arts Centre (Aberystwyth), March–April 2008.David Alan Mellor, No such thing as society: Photography in Britain 1967–87: From the British Council and the Arts Council collection. London: Hayward, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1-85332-265-5}}.
• Facts of Life / British Documentary Photography, Photomonth, National Museum, Kraków, August–November 2010. British photography 1974–1997.Simon Bainbridge, "[http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/1727982/brits-abroad Brits Abroad]" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101024191347/http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/report/1727982/brits-abroad |date=24 October 2010}}, British Journal of Photography, 13 August 2010. "[http://yeslogo.pl/4photomonth/index.php/en/page/28/british-documentary-photography.html British Documentary Photography] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130416124306/http://yeslogo.pl/4photomonth/index.php/en/page/28/british-documentary-photography.html |date=16 April 2013 }}", Photomonth Kraków. Both accessed 25 February 2011.

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• The Isle of Man. New York: Witkin Gallery, 1973. Portfolio.
• Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980. (Distributed by Zwemmer.) {{ISBN|0-7287-0187-1}} (hardback); {{ISBN|0-7287-0186-3}} (paperback). Under the name Christopher Killip. With text by Killip and John Berger and quotations from various older sources.
• In Flagrante. London: Secker & Warburg, 1988. {{ISBN|0-436-23358-4}} (hardback); {{ISBN|0-436-23356-8}} (paperback). Text by John Berger and Sylvia Grant.
• Vague à l'âme. Paris: Nathan, 1988. Text in French.
• Chris Killip 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. {{ISBN|0-7148-4028-9}}. Text by Gerry Badger.
• Pirelli Work. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. {{ISBN|978-3-86930-961-3}}.{{efn|Steidl's description of Pirelli Work is [https://steidl.de/Books/Pirelli-Work-1335383957.html here].}}
• Chris Killip: In Flagrante.
• Books on Books 4. New York: Errata Editions, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-935004-06-6}}. Reduced-size facsimile of the book of 1988, with an essay by Gerry Badger.
• Books on Books 4. New York: Errata Editions, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-935004-39-4}}.
• Here Comes Everybody: Chris Killip's Irish Photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. {{ISBN|978-0-500-54365-8}}.
• Seacoal. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. {{ISBN|3-86930-256-9}}.{{efn|Steidl's description of Seacoal is [https://steidl.de/Books/Seacoal-0011215354.html here].}}
• Arbeit / Work. Essen: Museum Folkwang; Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. {{ISBN|978-3-86930-457-1}}. Text in German and English;{{efn|Steidl's description of Arbeit / Work is [https://steidl.de/Books/arbeit-work-0917222935.html here].}} texts by Killip, David Campany and {{Illm|Ute Eskildsen|de|}}. A retrospective.
• Isle of Man Revisited. Göttingen: Steidl, 2015. {{ISBN|978-3-86930-959-0}}. A second, expanded edition of Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx.{{efn|Steidl's description of Isle of Man Revisited is [https://steidl.de/Books/Isle-of-Man-Revisited-0509101643.html here].}}
• In Flagrante Two. Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. {{ISBN|978-3-86930-960-6}}. A second, larger-format edition of the photographs constituting the 1988 book, with two extra photographs.{{efn|Steidl's description of In Flagrante Two is [https://steidl.de/Books/In-Flagrante-Two-2832404255.html here].}}
• The Station. Göttingen: Steidl, 2020. {{ISBN|978-3-95829-616-9}}.{{efn|Steidl's description of The Station is [https://steidl.de/Books/The-Station-0304093061.html here].}}{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Chris Killip's photos capture the freedom of punk in 80s north east England|url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/48430/1/chris-killips-photos-capture-the-freedom-of-punk-in-80s-north-east-england|date=23 March 2020|website=Dazed}}
• Chris Killip. London: Thames & Hudson, 2022. {{ISBN|978-0500025581}}. A retrospective.
• Skinningrove. London: Stanley/Barker, 2024.{{Cite web |date=2024-06-16 |title=Chris Killip's 1980s photographs of the fishing village of Skinningrove |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/photography-culture/article/chris-killips-1980s-photographs-of-the-fishing-village-of-skinningrove-3ph07jznh |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=The Times}}{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Kalum |date=2024-05-01 |title='Skinningrove' is the last publication Chris Killip worked on – and it features some of his finest photography |url=https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/skinningrove-is-the-last-publication-chris-killip-worked-on-and-it-features-some-of-his-finest-photography |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=digitalcameraworld}}

• "Chris Killip Photographs 1975–1976". London: Creative Camera, May 1977, number 155. Twenty-two plates, on pp. 150–171. (The title on the front cover is "Chris Killip Photographs 1975–1976 in the North East".)
• Askam-in-Furness 1982. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edition of 500 copies. A zine.
• Isle of Man TT Races 1971. Southport: Café Royal, 2018. Edition of 500 copies.{{efn|Café Royal's description of Isle of Man TT Races 1971 is [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-isle-of-man-tt-races-1971 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718011756/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-isle-of-man-tt-races-1971 |date=18 July 2019 }}.}}
• The Station. London: Ponybox. {{ISBN|9781999668709}}. 32-page tabloid newsprint publication.
• The Last Ships. London: Ponybox. {{ISBN|9781999668716}}. 28-page tabloid newsprint publication.
• Portraits. London: Ponybox. {{ISBN|9781999668723}}. 32-page tabloid newsprint publication.
• Skinningrove. London: Ponybox. {{ISBN|9781999668730}}. 32-page tabloid newsprint publication.
• Huddersfield 1974. Southport: Café Royal, 2019. Edition of 500 copies.{{efn|Café Royal's description of Huddersfield 1974 is [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-huddersfield-1974 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718011754/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-huddersfield-1974 |date=18 July 2019 }}.}}
• The Seaside 1975–1981. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Edition of 500 copies.{{efn|Café Royal's description of The Seaside 1975–1981 is [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-the-seaside-1975-1981 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322175043/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-the-seaside-1975-1981 |date=22 March 2020 }}.}}
• Shipbuilding on Tyneside 1975–1976. Southport: Café Royal, 2020.{{efn|Café Royal's description of Shipbuilding on Tyneside 1975–1976 is [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-shipbuilding-on-tyneside-19751976 here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902204026/https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-shipbuilding-on-tyneside-19751976 |date=2 September 2020 }}.}}
• Chris Killip. Southport: Café Royal, 2020. Boxed set of the five booklets previously published by Café Royal.{{efn|Café Royal's description of Chris Killip is [https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/shop/chris-killip-box-set-with-signed-edition-slip here].}}

• 1989: {{Illm|Henri Cartier-Bresson Award|fr|Prix Henri-Cartier-Bresson|cs|Cena Henriho Cartier-Bressona}}, from the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, Paris for In Flagrante{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Chris Killip|url=https://www.henricartierbresson.org/laureats/chris-killip/|website=Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation}}
• 2013: Shortlisted, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, for his exhibition What Happened – Great Britain 1970–1990 at Le Bal in Paris.{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Deutsche Börse 2013 – a shortlist that's short of photographers|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/26/deutsche-borse-photography-shortlist|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 November 2012|issn=0261-3077}}
• 2020: Dr. Erich Salomon Award from the German Society for Photography, Cologne."[http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=58181 Photographer Chris Killip given an international honour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015135238/http://www.iomtoday.co.im/article.cfm?id=58181 |date=15 October 2020 }}", Isle of Man Today, 5 October 2020. Accessed 15 October 2020."[https://www.dgph.de/sites/default/files/content/presse_news/pressemitteilungen/20200923_pm_dr._erich_salomon_final_e.pdf Chris Killip is being honoured with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020233117/https://dgph.de/sites/default/files/content/presse_news/pressemitteilungen/20200923_pm_dr._erich_salomon_final_e.pdf |date=20 October 2020 }}" (PDF), DGPh (German Photographic Society), 25 September 2020.

Killip's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Government Art Collection, UK: 3 prints (as of October 2020){{cite web|title=Explore: Artist > Chris Killip|access-date=2020-10-15|series=AUTH13238 Archives|url=https://artcollection.culture.gov.uk/person/killip-chris/|website=Government Art Collection}}
• Museum of Modern Art, New York: 20 prints (as of October 2020){{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Chris Killip MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/artists/3094|website=The Museum of Modern Art}}
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia: 12 prints (as of October 2020){{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=NGA collection search results|url=https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/search.cfm?creirn=13630&order_select=1&view_select=4|website=artsearch.nga.gov.au}}
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam: 4 prints (as of October 2020){{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Chris Killip|url=https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/collectie/maker/27751-chris-killip|website=www.stedelijk.nl}}
• Tate, UK: 80 prints (as of October 2020){{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Chris Killip born 1946|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/chris-killip-9241|website=Tate}}
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London: 93 prints (as of October 2020), including the 69 prints used for Isle of Man.{{cite web|access-date=2020-10-14|title=Your Search Results|url=http://collections.vam.ac.uk/search/?listing_type=imagetext&offset=0&limit=15&narrow=1&extrasearch=&q=Chris+Killip&commit=Search&quality=0&objectnamesearch=&placesearch=&after=&before=&namesearch=&materialsearch=&mnsearch=&locationsearch=|website=collections.vam.ac.uk}}

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