Looking For Trouble
I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet

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This edition will be launched 3rd November 2024
Orders now being taken here at www.moonboy.space

 

If you are one of the first 323 people to order through the website your copy of
the book will be signed by John and you will also a receive a colour photo, printed in offset in a strictly limited, signed and numbered edition of 323. You will also receive two posters and two bookmarks.
All subsequent orders will consist of an unsigned but numbered book, 2 posters and 2 bookmarks.

 

Dispatch of advance orders will commence on the 3rd of November. Please allow an appropriate delivery time according to your location – all books will be sent via Royal Mail with two options (Economy or Priority).

 

Photography editors: John Ingledew & Fabrice Couillerot
Text: John Ingledew
Foreword: Jon Swinstead
Concept & design: Fabrice Couillerot

 

MOONBOY is delighted to announce the publication of Looking For Trouble – I want all you skinheads to get up on your feet*, featuring over 160 rare and previously unpublished images by photographer John Ingledew. A limited edition of 800 numbered copies, this evocative and insightful book covers different facets of the skinhead revival in Britain in the late 1970s.

 

With commentary by John throughout and a foreword by Jon Swinstead, founder of The Museum of Youth Culture, this book provides a unique perspective into a tribe from the golden age of British youth culture, when punks, rockabillies, teds, new romantics and the mod and skinhead revivals all had their own vibrant scene.

 

Every youth cult needs great music, great clothing, great footwear and a great haircut. These new skinheads had it all; the boundless energy of The Specials and Madness provided the soundtrack, Ben Sherman, Crombie, Levi’s and Fred Perry the clothes and Dr. Marten’s the boots – a barber’s clippers rounding off the style with a number one, two or three.

 

The return of young skinheads to the football terraces of West London is pictured along with photographs of the gang of skins that congregated in the West End of London, whose members took the look in an extreme direction with facial
tattooing previously only seen in sideshows and U.S.prison yards. John got to know this group and photographed some of them at gigs, on days out, being tattooed and in their homes, as well as when they hung out terrifying the tourists in Leicester Square. He returned to the scene twice more to photograph the skinhead girls of Bristol, and finally the skins passionate about Jamaican music who’d travelled from all over the country to attend concerts by legends Prince Buster and Laurel Aitken, The Godfather of Ska.

 

Two previous books of John Ingledew’s photo­graphs have been published focusing on football fans; he has also written three books for photography and design students and is a Visiting Professor at the University of West London; John’s work is in the collection of The National Portrait Gallery and his photographs have featured in recent major UK exhibitions, Grown Up in Britain – 100 Years of Teenage Kicks and From the Caribbean to Coventry.

 

* Book subtitle © Symarip from Skinhead Moonstomp lyrics
courtesy of Frank Pitter

 

Specifications

 

The BOOK
Size: 170 x 240mm
Pages: 144 threadsewn
Printed: offset in 3 colours (two blacks for an amazing depth
to the images + a silver pantone) on 150gsm Novatech Matt paper
Softback Cover: 350gsm Edixion Offset printed front and back in silver pantone
Dustjacket: 120gsm Munken Polar Rough with Matrix Emboss one side
printed front (two blacks for an amazing depth to the images + silver pantone)

160 photos (in black and white)

 

A color photo printed in offset, strictly limited to 323 copies
signed and numbered by John Ingledew
Size: 170 x 240mm

 

2 POSTERS
Size: 480 x 360mm flat
130gsm Novatech Matt

 

2 BOOKMARKS
Size: 45 x 200mm
printed front and back in silver pantone on 350gsm Edixion Offset

 

Printer: Empress London, UK
catalogue number: MOON 4
ISBN: 978 -1-7395970 - 3 - 0

Price: UK £39.00 US $48.99

 

Postage & taxes not included

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