{"product_id":"9781912528646-jo-spence-the-unknown-recordings","title":"Jo Spence","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Unknown Recordings\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJo Spence: The Unknown Recordings\u003c\/i\u003e opens an unfiltered window onto one of Britain's most influential and uncompromising photographic thinkers. Drawn from newly discovered tapes, transcripts and unpublished photographs, the material reveals a voice far more intimate, direct and searching than anything previously published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJo Spence: The Unknown Recordings\u003c\/i\u003e opens an unfiltered window onto one of Britain's most influential and uncompromising photographers. Drawn from newly-discovered tapes, documents and unpublished photographs sourced from private and institutional collections, the material reveals a voice far more intimate, direct and searching than anything previously published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its core are two extraordinary audio recordings: a seven-hour British Library interview in which Spence reflects with forensic clarity on her early life, her political formation, her experience of class and the responsibilities of documentary practice; and a deeply personal self-recorded tape - made only for herself - in which she thinks through work, illness, relationships and the conditions of her own life. Together they form the most sustained and revealing account of her inner world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book also includes previously unseen images of the small London flat that served as her home, studio, workspace and meeting place: a space that helped shape her working life and her political imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntense, candid and often devastatingly honest, \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Recordings \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a sustained, unvarnished account of a working life shaped by precarious housing, chronic illness and low-paid, self-directed work - a unique insight into Jo Spence's mind, methods and convictions. And an essential resource for anyone interested in photography, feminism, working-class cultural history, and the ways in which personal experience and political commitment can be woven into a lifelong practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56909296533878,"sku":"9781912528646","price":38.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39230402_f75141c1-d3d0-403c-a503-670642cec7d4.jpg?v=1767101121","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781912528646-jo-spence-the-unknown-recordings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}