#61 CAMERA Book Review: Peter Marlow - Liverpool Looking Out to Sea

A look through the most wonderful book Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea by the late Peter Marlow. For me probably the most personal and greatest photography book in my collection. I hope you enjoy it.

Peter Marlow's Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea was published by Jonathan Cape in 1993 after more than a decade of photographing the city and its surrounding communities. Marlow first travelled to Liverpool in 1982 while documenting the effects of economic recession and industrial decline in Britain. He continued to return throughout the 1980s, producing an extensive body of work that examined a city undergoing profound social and economic change. The photographs record neighbourhoods including Everton, Kirkby, Toxteth, Birkenhead and Wallasey, documenting housing demolition, unemployment, community life, football culture and the maritime heritage that had long defined Liverpool's identity. An introduction by Ian Jack places the work within the wider context of Britain's changing industrial landscape.

Rather than presenting Liverpool solely as a city in decline, Marlow photographed the resilience and everyday lives of its residents alongside the physical transformation of the urban environment. His work records community events, religious life, the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, local football culture and the changing docklands with the same careful observational approach that characterised his documentary practice throughout Britain. Produced over a period of sustained engagement, Liverpool: Looking Out to Sea remains one of Marlow's most significant long term projects and stands as an important photographic record of Liverpool during a pivotal decade in its modern history.

Peter Marlow Foundation
Magnum Photos

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