Young London; Permissive Paradise

Quarto (313 x 255 mm.) : xvi [96], ill.(91 photographs) : pictorial index on endpapers : blue cloth with silver lettering in pictorial dust jacket. Internally clean and bright :binding lightly bumped on the corners and top and bottom edges including spine; dustjacket price clipped, heavily rubbed, creased, chipped; 3cm open tear to top edge of top cover and 2cm open tear to lower edge of lower cover; several small closed vertical tears. "What is happening in London? Is it wicked or creative, lazy or productive, a sign of decadence or a cause for hope? Is young London of the 1960's the new earthly paradise or is it plummeting into premature destruction? These are the questions which German-born photographer Frank Habicht poses in a series of wide-ranging and varied studies of contemporary London. He comments on the long-standing controversy surrounding this phenomenon with the freshness that only an outsider can bring to bear." (dust jacket) With short texts responding in the affirmative and negative to these questions, this wonderful photobook of 91 black and white photographs captures the many faces of sixties London.