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As an undergraduate art student at the University of Sunderland, Richard Billingham (British, born 1970) made a dark and moving series of color photographs of his parents and younger brother and their life in a housing project outside Birmingham, England, as studies for paintings. These large, dramatic pictures, published in book form as Ray's A Laugh, stand as a powerful testament to the impact of his father's chronic alcoholism and unemployment on his immediate family. Richard Billingham was short-listed for the U.K.'s prestigious Turner Prize 2001. |
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