Ray's a laugh: a reader

'Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader' by Liz Jobey, pub MACK Books (160pgs) by traced the history of Billingham’s photo series ‘Ray’s a Laugh’ which still remains as vital and provocative as on its first release. Editor Liz Jobey charted the history in a new commissioned essay that drew on interviews with Billingham and all the primary protagonists of the work’s emergence. This was followed by an extensive selection of conversations and essays from 1996 to the present, by writers including Charlotte Cotton, Gordon Burn, Lynn Barber, and Jim Lewis.
The book coincided with the release of a new edition of Ray’s a Laugh that restored Billingham’s original vision for the book.

'Ray’s a Laugh: A Reader is part of DISCOURSE, a series of books published by MACK Books in which a theorist, artist, or writer engages in a dialogue with a theme, an artwork, an idea, or another individual across an extended text.