Strangely Familiar Edition:First Colour is life

Colour is life

with the same message

as are the people who run them

Ray-Jones’ skills were gleaned from a generation of street photographers he encountered whilst living in New York in the mid-1960s

he hitchhiked to Budapest to photograph the city during the Hungarian revolution and the resulting pictures were published in Life and Picture Post

Strangely Familiar Edition:First Colour is lifeStrangely Familiar is the first monograph dedicated to Peter Mitchells celebrated photographs of 1970s Leeds. Taken while working as a truck driver, Mitchell captured the citys factories and shopkeepers with formal, step ladder precision. First shown in 1979 at Impressions Galleryhailed as the UKs first landmark colour photography exhibitionthis work has since featured at Tate Britain and in collections worldwide, yet never before in book form.