Name: London Punk and Protest 1979-1981
Brand: Yan Morvan

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CF22

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Format Books GB

Pamphlet

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2021-12-02

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

Cafe Royal Books

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Zero:0

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1 / Extended format: No / Pamphlet / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Yan Morvan

Genre GB

Art & Photography

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Cafe Royal Books is a project of artistic exchange between four French artists/graphic designers who live in different cities. It is an online space for sharing and discussing each other's work, as well as a biannual original self-published hand-made zine. Cafe Royal Books has had numerous launches, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and has participated in various events/fairs/festivals. Their work has been featured in press publications and blogs such as ANT Fashion Magazine and Vogue.

1/2 is Laure Boer, Anne-Pauline Mabire, Lucie Pindat and Chloé Thomas. They are based in Berlin, Caen, Paris and Vienna respectively. Despite their geographical differences, 1/2 continues to create art together through their online platform and zines.

Over the years, Cafe Royal Books has showcased their work at various venues around the world including Le Bon Accueil in Rennes and Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi. They have also participated in events like C/O Berlin Book Days and Vienna Photo Book Festival. Their unique approach to artistry has garnered attention from notable publications such as Gestalten's "Behind the Zines" book.

Morvan’s photographs capture that moment when punk in Britain was giving its edge to mod revival culture. They might be subtitled with Paul Weller’s lyrics from Down in the Tube Station at Midnight and the youth-led reaction against National Front thugs “who smelled of pubs and Wormwood Scrubs and too many rightwing meetings”. The mod scooter girls in this picture capture all the creative confusion of that year: the girl on the left, in her dress sense at least, embraces the multicultural Two-Tone message of Rock Against Racism; her friend at the back of the group, meanwhile, wears Vivienne Westwood’s swastika “destroy” T-shirt of a couple of years earlier, the most controversial of her punk shock tactics.

London Punk and Protest 1979-1981

Books GB