Monday 17 July 2017

Umbro by Kim Jones / Alasdair Mclellan, Kim Jones



Edition : First / London / Umbro / Boss Print Ltd / 2005 / Softcover. / Near Fine
8vo, Unpaginated (ca 200pp). Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Flatsigned to titlepage. Scarce, with only a few copies surfacing in the last decade.

Boom. Excellent work from Mclellan and Jones, shot in Brazil in 2005. Taking cues from Larry Clark and Nan Goldin this is as much a youth photodocumentary as it is a lookbook, and at around 200 pages it's a fully fleshed out piece of work. Were it not for it's published context, this could be one of the great youth photobooks. It's also Mclellan's first published book.