Skinhead: An Archive // Exhibition: The New Bridge

Skinhead: An Archive reflects the powerful aesthetic sensibility of the movement, featuring thoughtful use of risograph and offset-litho printing to reproduce the rough immediacy of the original material contrasted with luxurious binding and finishing to create a paradoxical and intriguing artefact.The book features an exclusive font design, developed and adapted from a skinhead article in a 1980s issue of Penthouse, which will be available to download in the Ditto store. Alongside a wealth of unseen visual material, the book will contain texts from writers with unique experience of the culture, including Bruce LaBruce and Garry Bushell. Designed by Jamie Andrew Reid and published by Ditto, with printed material curated by Toby Mott, the book examines this multi-faceted culture through the filter of printed material, zines, posters and films. The book is divided into sub-sections looking at the original iteration of skinhead, the fascist interpretation, the socialist counterpoint, queer skinhead culture, exploitation literature, skin girls, and everything in between.