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David LaChapelle. Steven Meisel. Pagina web de Chema Madoz. Terry Richardson .com. Richard Billingham. Liz working on a jigsaw from Ray's A Laugh. Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist who is best known for his photobook Ray's A Laugh which documents the life of his alcoholic father Ray, and obese, heavily-tattooed mother, Liz. Career[edit] Billingham was born in Birmingham and studied as a painter at Bournville College of Art and the University of Sunderland.[1] He came to prominence through his candid photography of his family in Cradley Heath, a body of work later added to and published in the acclaimed book Ray's A Laugh (1996).

Ray's a Laugh is a portrayal of the poverty and deprivation in which he grew up. The photographs, which were taken on the cheapest film he could find, provide brash colours and bad focus which adds to the authenticity and frankness of the series. In the following year he created a series of photographs of "Constable Country", the area on the Essex / Suffolk border painted by John Constable. Notes[edit] References[edit] Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.