ARCHIVUM: Vintage Joy Division Prints by Kevin Cummins

Kevin Cummins & Paul Stopler

Softcover | 24 x 1.3 x 28 | 144 pp

Paul Stolper Gallery | 2022 | 9781916023345  

ARCHIVUM shows for the first time in book form more than 50 unique black-and-white prints of Kevin Cummins's photographs of the band Joy Division, many printed by him just hours after concerts had finished. The book not only documents the history of a now iconic and era-defining group, but also focuses for the first time on the history of the photographs themselves, how and when they were printed, how Cummins composed what he calls his portraits, and how they were used.

Cummins, as a young, aspiring photographer from Manchester, had unique access to the band in their very early days, from their previous incarnation as Warsaw to after
lan Curtis's death when they evolved into New Order. Many of these photographs were reproduced by NME and other music magazines in the late 1970s and they helped cement Cummins's reputation as the greatest music photographer of his generation - he was subsequently made NME's chief photographer for over ten years.

The original photographic black-and white prints are reproduced at almost full size, with the photographer's notes and marks on the back shown for the first time. The
book includes a specially commissioned interview with Kevin Cummins offering a new
insight into the band and the photographer's techniques. This is a unique record of an important archive collection of original photographs of one of the world's most iconic bands.