Ellen Christie - Editor
Kilkenny, Ireland
Illustrated non-fiction, art and photography editor with almost ten years of in-house experience.
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Overview
I specialize in illustrated non-fiction book publishing. I began my career in galleries and have since worked on a wide range of titles and subjects: art, photography, cultural studies, history, food, design, architecture and children’s books.
Editorial services include: project management; planning content; development editing; substantive and line copy-editing; re-writing; proofreading; picture research and fact-checking.
Editorial services include: project management; planning content; development editing; substantive and line copy-editing; re-writing; proofreading; picture research and fact-checking.
Languages
English (UK)
Non-Fiction
Architecture
Art
Biographies & Memoirs
Children's - Non-fiction
Comics (non fiction)
Cooking & Food Wine & Spirits
Design
DIY & Crafts
History
Home & Garden
Photography
Travel
Fiction
Children's - Picture Books
Work experience
Project Editor
Phaidon Press
July, 2012
–
January, 2016
(over 3 years)
Editorial Assistant - part of Graduate Training programme
Phaidon Press
October, 2010
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July, 2012
(over 1 year)
Publications Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant
Long March Space, Beijing
January, 2008
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July, 2009
(over 1 year)
Portfolio (8 selected works)
9780714872353: The Illustrated Story of England
Christopher Hibbert, Sean Lang
A beautiful, quirky, illustrated edition of Phaidon's compelling bestseller, celebrating the book....
Factory: Andy Warhol
Stephen Shore
Warhol's Factory as seen through the lens of a young Shore, providing an insider view of this ext....
JR: Can Art Change the World?
Nato Thompson, Joseph Remnant
The first major and in-depth retrospective monograph on JR, the enigmatic and anonymous Parisian photographer/street artist/activist behind some of the world's most provocative large-scale public photography projects.Created in close collaboration with JR, this book includes all bodies of his work, his collaborations with other artists and institutions such as the New York Ballet and previousl... read more
The Documentary Impulse
Stuart Franklin
Award-winning photographer Stuart Franklin's exploration of how we, as humans, are driven to visually document our experiences and the world around us.Stuart Franklin took one of the most powerful photographs of the twentieth century - the 'tank man' in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989. From his insightful position as a photographer, Franklin explores why we are driven to visually document our ... read more
The Art of Forgery: The Minds, Motives and Methods of the Master Forgers explores the stories, dramas and human intrigues surrounding the world's most famous forgeries - investigating the motivations of the artists and criminals who have faked great works of art, and in doing so conned the public and the art establishment alike.
Stephen Shore: Survivors in Ukraine
Stephen Shore
A powerful and haunting visual record, Stephen Shore's portraits highlight the resilience and hope of Ukraine's Holocaust survivors.Stephen Shore, one of the most influential photographers living today, traveled to the Ukraine in 2012 and again in 2013, just prior to the current political upheaval, to visit 35 survivors, most of whom are women. In the photographs of the survivors and their hom... read more
The Elements of Sculpture
Herbert George
The ultimate viewer’s guide to experiencing art in three dimensions, featuring classical Greek sculpture and Baroque marble carvings alongside works by Rodin, Duchamp, and Felix Gonzalez‐Torres.In The Elements of Sculpture, author Herbert George – a sculptor, renowned educator, and Getty Museum fellow – provides readers with a new vocabulary for viewing and discussing this versatile art... read more
A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography.Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera... read more
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