First edition of Estate by Robert Clayton. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Some minor shelf wear to the boards but all pages and spine are clean and intact.

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Over 128 pages with 67 colour plates, Clayton’s work is classic social documentary. Capturing the ‘everyday’ on a housing estate in the early 1990’s, the stage he presents is a moment in time - the decline and destruction of such estates is underway just as the ideology of the welfare state that created them was being dismantled too. We are taken on a journey from a distant view, around streets and communal areas and then inwards into the homes of residents, from wide vistas to architectural detail. ‘Estate’ is a compelling, sensitive and enlightening narrative illustrating a moment in time in the British urban landscape.