Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books This small volume makes for

This small volume makes for the sole exhibition of this remarkable work

imperceptible gradients

His practice references historical drawing forms and grand architectural settings

Although the algorithms trace the contours of the world with astonishingly mimetic precision

Richard Billingham - Ray's A Laugh Smalltime Books This small volume makes forPhotographer and painter Richard Billingham (born 1970) grew up in a cramped, high rise tenement apartment with his mother and father in Birmingham, England. His father, Ray, was an unemployed, chronic alcoholic, often sleeping the whole day through, while Liz, Billinghams overweight and heavily tattooed mother, filled her home with porcelain dolls and jigsaw puzzles, housing ten cats and three dogs. These are Billinghams subjects. His images are raw,