# The Sound of Dirt and Beauty

- **Brand:** SPBH Editions
- **Price:** $35.00
- **Catalog:** mackbooks
- **Retailer:** mackbooks
- **Product URL:** https://go.cosimo.shop/r/gAAAAABqwQNOOXORn1sXnO3zMSN6oN6bFD76SF8v2eEi3dHkMJEEN69CnrorpaQ6ScmdVCVYFsAXdYga0HmYZxi8bNKgvyLcgoXr5JgIcaE_6qTfWmlFUOmOi3FXbmuQ5bfYpiNiNP-btyu-pxeMQuudsh5u0DuPoHWVpl66G1TO0uRw2LLaeAZNm4VNFo9S7QG3FCGiD0X94XRZxOyocO51DyOKtqXrjAm-snGlwjnqElcbK0sSEYiXskORevscEWy3Q3v5mL925H42ZEkFaBEugVlDclavCMuyGC4ER4hBLqpmTHVGa1wUQ8okYQeya0jDF3HxIDU4q271zNEL2XrTyQonJ028FQkIRufiqrAG9dIsLhejPJpky2G43oD4fJJnsxTaJ_S3zhoJovwU-n8tv7dD10zZD6LjebwPv6bth2dMKz-c64j8Q4j86D_Y9SJ3UUEfXVkGQ7vknNrWW1-8odDX5DweyA==
- **Availability:** In stock

## Summary

A paperback photography book titled 'The Sound of Dirt and Beauty' by Jesse Glazzard, featuring black and white portraits.

## Description

The Sound of Dirt and Beauty is the first book by British photographer Jesse Glazzard, bringing together photographs made in the UK over the past decade among friends, lovers, and collaborators. Rooted in working-class experience and shaped by underground queer culture, Glazzard’s images combine portraiture and documentary, moving between intimate studio portraits and scenes of everyday life. Bodies, bedrooms, gatherings, fragments of diaries, and moments of tenderness are rendered with a raw immediacy that resists spectacle. Rather than presenting identity as a fixed category, the work allows people simply to appear as they are, reflecting a generation moving beyond rigid identity structures and embracing fluidity, experimentation, and chosen forms of belonging. Across the book, Glazzard’s own transition unfolds alongside the shifting lives of the people around him, forming part of a wider portrait of a shared world. At the heart of the book is a desire to build an archive of the present, documenting a circle of lives often absent from official histories. Conceived as a stapled, screen-printed publication much like Glazzard’s self-published zines, the book presents this material with the directness of a record. What emerges is a portrait of friendship, intimacy, and collective life that holds vulnerability and solidarity side by side.

## Variants

- **In stock:** 1 of 1

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## Categories

- **Categories:** Photography Books

## Additional Attributes

- **ISBN:** 978-1-917651-72-1
- **tags:** Jesse Glazzard, photographic portraits
- **pages:** 168 pages
- **author:** Jesse Glazzard
- **format:** Paperback
- **vendor:** SPBH Editions
- **binding:** Paperback
- **publisher:** SPBH Editions
- **dimensions:** 21 x 29.7 cm
- **page count:** 168 pages
- **product type:** Photography Books
- **listed prices:** €30 £25 US$35 AU$60
- **shopify handle:** the-sound-of-dirt-and-beauty-jesse-glazzard
- **publication date:** August 2026
- **dimensions and pages:** 21 x 29.7 cm, 168 pages

## Enrichment

- **Type:** photography book
- **Type Synonyms:** art book, monograph
- **Tags:** paperback, black and white photography, portraiture
- **Styles:** contemporary, artistic
- **Category Path:** Media > Books > Print Books
- **Book cover type:** Paperback
- **Genre:** Arts, Society & culture
- **Language version:** ENG- English
- **Target audience:** Adults
- **Canonical Brand:** SPBH Editions

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