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Skins: Gavin Watson

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Skins by Gavin Watson is arguably the single most important record of '70s skinhead culture in Britain. Described by The Times as "a modern classic".

Author: Gavin Watson
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Acc Art Books
Published: 04/17/2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 10.12h x 8.20w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9781788842167

About the Author
Gavin Watson was born in London in 1965 and grew up on a council estate in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. He bought a Hanimex camera from Woolworths in his early teens and began to take photographs. Upon leaving school at the age of 16, Watson moved back to London and became a darkroom assistant at Camera Press. He continued to photograph his younger brother Neville and their group of skinhead friends in High Wycombe. The 'Wycombe Skins' were part of the working-class skinhead subculture brought together by a love of ska music and fashion. Although skinhead style had become associated with the right-wing extremism of political groups like the National Front in the 1970s, Watson's photographs document a time and place where the subculture was racially mixed and inclusive. Director Shane Meadows has cited Watson's photographs as an inspiration for his film This is England (2006).