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Eyeball Cards - The Art of British CB Radio Culture

Four Corners Books 2017 ISBN 9781909829084 Acqn 27847
Hb 16x22cm 192pp col ills 14

From the hiss and crackle of Britains CB radio heyday, only Eyeball cards remain. These are the
mysterious business cards of breakers exchanged when British CB enthusiasts would meet up
in person after chatting on the airwaves. These alternate identities are sometimes amusing,
occasionally mundane, dark or bawdy, but always personal creations flotsam from a more
innocent analogue world.

This book is the first to document this late 70s and early 80s sub culture and presents hundreds
of the funniest, strangest and most intriguing Eyeball cards from across the uk. In addition,
photographer David Titlow has taken portraits of some of the breakers who owned the cards, and
writer William Hogan has written a lively history of how and why these cards came to exist. The
result is a window into an outpouring of creativity that prefigures online identities social media
handles before there was even an internet.

David Titlow is a highly regarded photographer who won the coveted Taylor Wessing Portrait
Prize in 2014. His work regularly appears in Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Sunday Times and The
Telegraph. William Hogan is a writer and ghost writer whose work spans creative entities as
diverse as Puss Puss magazine, Channel 4 and Lionsgate.

Eyeball Cards is part of the Four Corners Irregulars, a series about modern British visual history.

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