Thomas Mailaender: The Night Climbers of Cambridge
The Night Climbers of Cambridge, published in 1937, documents the nocturnal climbing exploits of a group of Cambridge students along the university’s roofs and walls. In this interpretation, Thomas Mailaender presents archival photographs the climbers took of themselves in action.
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Featured image is reproduced from The Night Climbers of Cambridge, The Archive of Modern Conflict's upgraded "reprint" of a 1937 cult publication documenting the nocturnal exploits of a group of university renegades who spent their pre-war evenings climbing the facades of campus buildings (with early photographic equipment in tow). In the current incarnation—featuring a fuzzy, embossed midnight-black flocked cover and bound-in facsimile photographs with original hand-written and typed notes on back—the super-dark, full-bleed reproductions (now in the collection of French artist-provocateur Thomas Mailaender) present "a secret, romantic creature, like a character from Buchan 'crossing a Scottish moor on a stormy night,'" according to photography historian Ian Jeffrey. "Mailaender… identifies the night-climber as a prototype—a wary traveller, mixing with others whilst attempting to make his way across a chancy terrain without much in the way of rules or etiquette." continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 88 pgs / 64 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $100.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $132.5 GBP £65.00 ISBN: 9780957049093 PUBLISHER: The Archive of Modern Conflict AVAILABLE: 3/1/2014 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Thomas Mailaender: The Night Climbers of Cambridge
Published by The Archive of Modern Conflict.
The Night Climbers of Cambridge, published in 1937, documents the nocturnal climbing exploits of a group of Cambridge students along the university’s roofs and walls. In this interpretation, Thomas Mailaender presents archival photographs the climbers took of themselves in action.
