Banter & Bustle
Design, Layout and Art Direction for Jeff Scott at Methanol Press
Banter & Bustle was reviewed in The Telegraph by Andrew Baker, saying of Jeff Scott:
“(Banter & Bustle)…will also one day fascinate football historians. He has photographed Sunderland fans, home and away, but the book should appeal beyond supporters of the Black Cats. He has a great knack for making the banal look compelling and a terrific designer who has cropped and arranged the pictures to great effect. In 100 years we will know what is was like to watch football in the early years of the 21st century”.
Preface
In this book of candid snapshots and eavesdropped comments Jeff Scott captures the atmosphere and flavour of the reality of the contemporary match day experience that rarely gets covered in the media.
Football fans everywhere know that the generic match day football experience isn’t only centred on the match itself – but also integral to the day is the journey to and from the stadium as well as the banter and wit of the terraces.
Jeff travelled to 37 Sunderland matches in the Championship to capture first hand the centrifugal and centripetal forces that torment and delight fans everywhere.
More Reviews
“A timely reminder that football in 2008 isn’t all gold-plated; it’s still about the fans who trek all over the land for the love of their team. Made me want to go out and eat from my nearest burger van.”
Andy Dawson, best-selling author of ‘An Irish Uprising’
“This book captures the romance of one of the great British institutions – match day.”
Big Issue
“This book is a little gem in my opinion, capturing the essence of how mundane and ordinary matchday is and yet how magical, now. It may be the glory game, but these photographs show the other side of the coin – the fish and chips, the flagsellers, the queuing at turnstiles and train stations. Policemen, stewards, barbed wire, tarmac and turf. There’s hardly a posed picture between the covers as fans and officials are captured in candid shots, just going about their business, while football grounds are shot from unflattering and awkward angles as opposed to the professional images we are normally fed. The book … provides a diverting and unusual addition to the growing Sunderland lexicon.”
Graeme Anderson, Sunderland Echo
A photographic book, designed by The Scrutineer Rachael Adams for Cork Streeet Press. She sifted through thousands of images, cropping and arranging as she went… the result is a journey to and from the game, through the eyes of the fan.
