Santa's coming to town
Dublin Core
Title
Santa's coming to town
Shelfmark - 225.ULAND/SP.SUMMERFIELD
Subject
Fine Art
Description
Inspired by the tinsel scarlet and reds of Christmas shop windows, using colour for this set of photographs is a new departure for Summerfield. Need and desire are wilfully blurred in a crimson haze throughout shopping centres, all the more garish when seen beside the muted colours of rough sleepers in streets and doorways. The consumerism he shows is resistant to examination, to questions like: “What good comes of this?”These photographs show a different but equally shocking contrast — the ever more discordant commercialism, with glossy and brash store windows, shopping mall displays, the crass glitter of the festive season. This is a photographic sermon, to invite us to compassion.
Creator
Paddy Summerfield
Publisher
Paddy Summerfield via Blurb
Date
2018
Format
Soft back, premium semi-gloss paper, printed by Blurb.co.uk
Book Item Type Metadata
Dimensions
20 x 24 x 0.5
Number of Pages
19 pages 38 sides
Number of images
26 pictures including cover
Edition Size
20
Place of Publication
Oxford UK via Blurb
Designer
Paddy Summerfield
Editor
Paddy Summerfield
Printer
Blurb.co.uk
ISBN
n/a
Website
www.paddysummerfield.com
URL Link to project
n/a
Where to buy
from Paddy Summerfield via CONTACT on the website www.paddysummerield.com
Links to reviews
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/salutary-seasonal-spectacle
Collection
Citation
Paddy Summerfield, “Santa's coming to town,” Photo Book Cafe Archive, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/items/show/225.