GILL, Stephen. Archaeology in Reverse. (London): Nobody [self-published] and Archive of Modern Conflict, (2007).

GILL, Stephen.
Archaeology in Reverse.
(London): Nobody [self-published] and Archive of Modern Conflict, (2007).

Square 8vo (217 × 217 mm), pp.[114] (incl. one folding). Colour photographs. Design by Melanie Mues. 12pp text by Ian Sinclair bound in. Pictorial endpapers after lino prints by Gill printed in brown. Brown cloth-covered boards with red splash to front, spine titled in red. Press release and publisher’s card laid in. Signed by Gill in pencil on title-page. Fine.

First edition, signed copy. Archaeology in Reverse was shot using the same plastic camera that Gill used for Hackney Wick (2005). He continued to photograph the area of East London that was to make way for the new buildings that would host the 2012 London Olympic Games, revealing traces and clues of the future developments that would soon redefine the area.