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This book by Kevin Cummins perfectly compliments our Postcard Boxset - as well as more of his iconic images of Joy Division it also includes an interview with Bernard Sumner, introduction by Jay McInerney and a museum like collection of tickets, flyers, instruments, set lists and posters.

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“As an artful chronicler of rock history, Cummins has become something of a legend himself, and at this distance in time, his photographs of Joy Division seem as authentic and unstaged as the band they portray. Long after their subjects have attained iconic status, they seem as fresh as the music we inevitably hear in our minds as we turn these pages.” 
—Jay McInerney, Foreword

The definitive look at one of the most iconic rock bands of all time. Joy Division pioneered a genre of music and defined the look and sound of the post-punk era, and thirty years after the suicide of their lead singer Ian Curtis, they remain one of the most influential rock bands to have come out of England. Between their infamous live performances and two studio albums in the late 1970s, Joy Division set the Manchester scene alight, established Factory Records as the most influential label in pop music, and recorded some of the most enduring songs of the era. Kevin Cummins began his career just as the band formed, and for the few short years of their career was given closer access to them than any other photographer. Joy Division collects more than two hundred of his images of the band sensitive photographs that capture their quiet introspection offstage, their close relationships as bandmates, and Curtis s legendary energy in live performances and supplements the iconic images with concert tickets, unreleased record sleeves, fan club badges, Factory Records flyers, and other rare ephemera. This book is the most definitive and heavily illustrated celebration of the band ever produced.


Fine hardback monograph of the eminent lensman's Joy Division photographs... Extras in this very covetable book include a foreword by novelist Jay McInerney... Assorted setlists, flyers and lyric books... --Mojo, February 2011

'The photographer Kevin Cummins on how his shots of Joy Division came to define the band.' --Telegraph Magazine

Photographs and Preface by Kevin Cummins
Foreword by Jay McInerney
Interview with Bernard Sumner
Hardcover / 8 2/3” x 11 2/3” / 208 pages / 180 illustrations
PRICE: £25.00
Rizzoli New York
ISBN: 978-0-8478-3481-5

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