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Alan Dein - Face In The Crowd

Four Corners Books 2018 ISBN 9781909829138 Acqn 29065
Hb 17x23cm 96pp 50ills £8

Is this you? Then take this programme to the club office and claim two free
tickets for the next home game.

From the 1950s onwards, football match programmes regularly featured Face In The Crowd
competitions – crowd photographs with a lucky face circled. This simple promotion, a way of
encouraging regular purchasing of match day programmes, also managed to create an
unintentional visual record of football supporters over the decades. They might seem reminders
of an apparently less complicated era, but these images conjure darker, more disturbing echoes:
those of faces caught in the cross hairs of an unseen assassin’s rifle, or tracked by the lens of
surveillance cameras of some sinister dystopian world. A harbinger of a time when we can no
longer be just an anonymous face in the crowd. Alan Dein is an oral historian and a multi award
winning radio documentary presenter.

Face In The Crowd is the fifth book in the Four Corners Irregulars series of accessible
introductions to modern British visual history, after UFO Drawings From The National Archives,
Eyeball Cards, Poster Workshop and Leeds Postcards.

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