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<em>2000-2002</em>
</strong><strong>Photographed by Ruth Bayer</strong>

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170 x 220mm
160pp + 6 page fold out

Over 200 photos in colour and BW. <em>Texts by Ruth Bayer and Mark Pilkington.</em>

+ 32pp chapbook <em><strong>Sick Mirrors: Coil at the Barbican</strong></em>

+ Flashing black and silver enamel <em>Time Machines</em> <strong>hieroglyphic monad badge</strong>.

<strong><i>HB edition of 500 copies only, signed by Ruth Bayer: </i></strong><strong><em>£45 +p&amp;p.</em></strong><i>
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<em>This book is a time machine. </em>

We're thrilled to present this collection of photographs by Ruth Bayer, documenting Coil's first live performances as a band between 2000 and 2002.

Ruth was granted unprecedented access to three live London performances – at the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Barbican – and was present both onstage and during behind-the-scenes preparations.

Ruth's images capture both the method, and the madness, of Coil's now-legendary live performances, and provide a unique window into this critical, final phase of Coil's existence.

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"I first met John Balance in 1988 at the photo session for the Current 93 album <em>Earth Covers Earth</em>, which I shot on Hampstead Heath in London. He was known to everyone as Geff (his birth name), and he wore a fabulous Hawaiian shirt to the session. That was the first time I photographed him, and the book you are now holding contains the last photos I took of him – and the only photos I took of his partner Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson."
<strong>Ruth Bayer</strong>

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<strong>Camera, Light, Oblivion</strong><em> incorporates a signed 166-page full colour, hardback book in a transparent dust jacket, a 32-page BW chapbook, and a 'flashing' black nickel and enamel badge of the backdrop to the Time Machines performance, John Dee's 'Hieroglyphic Monad'. </em>

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