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Battersea Arts Centre The Magasine The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF for independent 01-924 3017 Photography Contributors to this issue Frontlines, headlines and comment. # Grace Robertson was a photo-journalist News 5 with Picture Post. Foreground9 Grace Robertson is reminded of life ‘not # Wendy Falconer, resident in England so long ago’ by Humphrey Spender’s for the past six years, is from Canada. work from the 1930’s. Presently a self-employed photographer and designer, she recently completed the Wendy Falconer 12Examines the contradictions between her part-time BA course at the Polytechnic of desires and her intellect. Central London.

# Roger Bradley administers Picture Pinpoint 16 The insider’s gallery guide. This month House in Leicester. Picture House, Leicester explains its policy, problems and position. # Richard Butchins, once involved in the music industry, is now a photographer Perspective 17 Pleasures and pitfalls in setting up a funded based in Oxford. project are explained by Richard Butchins who helped found the Oxford # Henry Kerr is Photographer in Photographic Archive. Residence at Summerlee Heritage Trust, Coatbridge, Scotland. He studied at Henry Kerr20 Uses the snapshot form as a vehicle into ‘our Glasgow School of Art and has exhibited lives and our dreams’. widely, most recently at the Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh. Remembering24 Described in The Independent as 'Britain’s # Ian Jeffrey contributes regularly; he is senior master in photographic art’, presently working on a Royal Academy of Raymond Moore Raymond Moore died on 6 October 1987. Art exhibition marking photography’s Colleagues and friends recall what marked 150th birthday. the man and his work in celebration of a gifted life. 0 Emmanuel Cooper, also a regular contributor, is a potter, writer and critic. Letter(s) 32 Was the Bradford Challenge worthwhile? And an endorsement of deep-seated values. Front Cover: Raymond Moore, Raes Knowes, 1980 Review33 Ian Jeffrey examines a new collection of writings by critic and photographer Max Kozloff and Emmanuel Cooper enquires into the recently exhibited large scale photoworks by Patrick Tosani. ISSN:0011-0876 Published by CC Publishing Limited, a Books36 Colin Osman’s views on recently charity registered to promote the art of published books. photography, with assistance from the Arts in Brief Council. © CC Publishing Ltd and indi­ vidual authors. Opinions expressed are those of authors and not necessarily shared Personal 37 A Book of the Year selected by 11 by the Editorial team. Typeset by Wands­ photographers, artists, writers and worth Typesetting Ltd, 205A St John’s Hill, Choice gallerists. London SW11 1TH and printed by Jackson Wilson Ltd, Unit 4, Gelderd Trading Estate, West Vale, Leeds LS12 6BD.

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Battersea Arts Centre The Magazine The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF for Independent 01-924 3017 Photography Contributors to this issue O is a photographer, critic News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. and architect. He is currently researching a major exhibition on British photography Voices in9 British photography in the 60’s and the for the Barbican Art Gallery. genesis of CC overviewed by Gerry Badger. • Richard Ehrlich writes regularly for CC. the Wilderness Last year he won a Photographers’ Trust David Hurn, a major photographer when award to research the life and influence of Perspective 1 12 CC was born, looks back to 60's Tony Ray-Jones. cameraderie and Paddy Summerfield, a O Richard Butchins, is an Oxford based young photographer then, talks of change. photographer. On being young and in love with • Bill Jay, CC’s first Editor and the Back to16 photography. Bill Jay, this magazine’s first founderof Album magazine, is a Professor Editor, recalls his passions. of Art at Arizona State University, Tempo the Future and author of several books on photographers and photography. Bryn Campbell, photographer and Perspective 220 picture editor, reviews his long-term • Colin Osman, founder-publisher of CC, concern for the medium and Homer is a photographer, author and publisher. Sykes, a 60’s young contemporary, He has written widely on the medium. realises the success of decisions he made 20 • David Lee, who interviews him, is years ago. Dorothy Bohm talks of her photography critic Artsof Review and a work, then and now, while Sylvester regular contributor to CC. Jacobs looks forward to opportunities not • William Bishop is a photographer, open to him in 1968. writer and critic. His work appears frequently inThe British Journal of Why and how did CC begin life? Colin Photography. 20 Years Ago Today28 Osman tells his tale. • Liz Wells is a writer and teacher. Her work has also been published regularly by George Rodger, a founder Magnum the BJP. Perspective 330 member, tracks back to a time when CC had • Emmanuel Cooper, potter, writer and to improve and Andrew Lanyon recalls critic, contributes to CC regularly. how his early photography encouraged him • David Brittain is a writer and back to painting. photographic journalist. Review33 ‘The Erotic and Exotic in Photography’ • Peter Fraser, whose portfolio was subtitles Private View, a large scale RPS published in CC5/1986, is a photographer show in Bath. Liz Wells and Emmanuel living in Bristol. He has recently received Cooper offer two views. Integrity is at the an Arts Council award towards the costs of heart of Red River, suggests Katy his first book.Peter Turner, talking with McLeod on seeing Jem Southam’s him. is CC’s present Editor. show in Plymouth. Fixed viewpoints link Georges Rousse and Calum Colvin Published by CC Publishing Limited, a who exhibited recently at Riverside Studios. charity registered to promote the art of David Brittain comments. photography, with assistance from the Arts Council. © CC Publishing Ltd and Books in Brief37 Colin Osman’s assessment of recent individual authors. Typeset by Wandsworth books. Typesetting Ltd, 205A St John’s Hill, London SW11 1TH and printed by Jackson Talkback38 Photography’s gains and losses over 20 Wilson Ltd, Unit Four, Gelderd Trading Front cover: years, thought over by Peter Fraser and Estate, Leeds LS12 6BD. Designed by Pavel Biichler Peter Turner.

Distribution Twenty years work could encourage self- congratulation, however this issue is dedicated to the Britain: (Non News Trade) Central memory of Norman Hall. The pioneering and ex­ Books, London emplary Editor ofPhotography magazine in the 50’s; he USA: Photo Eye, Austin, Texas was a source of inspiration to CC’s founders and first Australia: Manic Exposur, contributors. In 1962 he became Picture Editor ofThe Melbourne, Victoria ISSN:0011-0876 Times where he worked until his death in 1978. Editor: Peter Turner Assistant Editor.-Eileen Pilkington 3/1988 Consultant Editor.-Colin Osman Design Consultant:Pavc\ Buchler Battersea Arts Centre The Magazine The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF for Independent 01-924 3017 Photography Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. # Carolyn Bloore is a photographic Policy, position and problems explained by historian. Exhibitions she has curated have Pinpoint9 f-Stop, Bath. been seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the National Museum of Photography, Bradford. While Roger Fenton, presently on view Foreground 10at the , London is hailed as # Mark Warner studied photography at the greatest of 19th century photographers, Manchester Polytechnic and received his Caroline Bloore sets the scene for his MA in 1983. Since then his work has been ascent. widely exhibited, most recently at - Viewpoint in Salford. Images on the verge of change are central to # Vini Reilly, who provides a response to Placement 12 Mark Warner’s latest body of work - the images is a musician and founder aquiring value through the placement of member of Durutti Column. Their latest of Value light. album The Guitar and Other Machines was recently released on Factory Records. Issues surrounding beauty and its # Val Williams writes regularly for CC. In The Beautiful 16 photographic fall from grace are raised by 1986 Virago publishedWoman Gaze Val Williams who offers some context for Photographers her study of ‘the other this issue. observers’. Beauty, says Tuija Lindstrom, is a desire # Tuija Lindstrom is a photographer from Deep Waters 18expressed by those who know life’s Stockholm, Sweden. Her work was darknesses. From her own longing comes exhibited last year at Axiom, Cheltenham. sensuality. # Francois Dolmetsch, born in Surrey, has lived in Colombia, South America, since Seeking shapes and symbols of universality, 1962. A musician and photographer, he has Designed as24 Francois Dolmetsch looks to a exhibited in South America, the United landscape beyond the borders of his prints. States and Europe. The Photographers’ Nature Gallery, London showed his work in 1987. # Ian Jeffrey, a regular contributor, is an Lush Stuff 30 Mysterious Coincidences, an art historian and presently working as an internationally touring show of recent independent writer, critic and curator. British colour photographs is baptised in fire by Ian Jeffrey. # David Briers, based in Wales, writes for a number of magazines on the arts scene there. Remembering photographs, not # Liz Wells, who lectures and writes, is Review33 photography is David Briers’ response to CC’s Bristol correspondent. Regarding Photography, currently touring Britain. Finding the New Sublime in a prosaic world is Thomas Struth’s gift, suggets Ian Jeffrey, viewing his work in Edinburgh. And ambition exceeding ISSN:0011-0876 experience marks Bath’s latest f-Stop show by two young image-makers, in Liz Published by CC Publishing Limited. © CC Publishing Ltd and individual authors. Wells’ opinion. Opinions expressed are those of authors and not necessarily shared by the Editorial team. Typeset by Wandsworth Typesetting Ltd, Books in Brief37 Recent books scruitinised by Colin London and printed by Jackson Wilson Osman. Ltd, Leeds. Distribution Talkback38 Recalling a decade in the front line of the Britain: (Non News Trade) medium’s subsidised arena, Debbi Ely Central Books, London talks to Liz Wells about past, present and USA: Photo Eye, Austin, Texas future. Canada: Speedimpex, Weston, Ontario Australia: Manic Exposeur, Front cover photograph by Tuija Melbourne, Victoria Lindstrom Editor.-Peter Turner Assistant Editor:Eileen Pilkington 4/1988 Consultant Editor:Co\m Osman Design Consultant.-Pavel Biichler

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. 9 Brian McAvera whose writing accompanies the images in this issue, is our Maurice Hobson 9 Photowork Irish correspondent and a regular contributor. Based in the North he is a The scene for a contemporary Northern freelance critic, writer and exhibitions Strategies 10Irish visual culture is set by Brian organiser. ‘Strategics’ tookThe Magnetic McAvera. North, a show McAvera curated for the Orchard Gallery, Derry late last year as its point of departure. McAvera co-ordinated Components 12Emotion and intellect, says Brian image gathering for this issue. McAvera together with Nature, Religion of the Scene and Politics, Language and Images all 9 Catherine Turner studied film and drama inform the Ulster artist’s experience. at the University of Canterbury, Kent. She set up and runs the Special Photographers Photoworks by Willie Doherty, Errol Company, London. Portfolios 14 Forbes, Peter Neil, Hazel McNeil, Barbara Freeman and Victor Sloan. 9 Chris Ledger who writes and reviews for CC from the Midlands, is part of Audio A Readers’ Forum. Visual Arts, a woman’s media co-operative Letter(s) 31 based in Nottingham. Pinpoint32 Special Photographers’ Company 9 Francis Hodgson is a writer contributing policy, position and problems explained by to several publications. He reviews Catherine Turner. photography regularly for CCThe and Spectator. Fantasy meets formalism in Ralph Review33 Gibson’s retrospective, which excites 9 Richard Ehrlich writer, cook and regular Richard Ehrlich. The Mind, a thematic contributor to CC is presently working on a view of mental handicap, takes on a major re-assessment of Tony Ray-Jones, a sensitive subject successfully, says Chris project funded by The Photographers’ Ledger. And another history of Trust. photography, edited by Jean Claude Lemagny, is welcomed by Francis 9 Barry Lane is the Arts Council’s Hodgson Photography Officer. 9 Individual Image-Makers published in Books in Brief37 Colin Osman gives his attention to this issue are mentioned on page 30. recently published books.

9 Contributing in kindthough not by name In which Barry Lane explains present Arts was Dcclan McGonaglc, Director of the Talkback38 Council policy and outlines plans for Orchard Gallery, Derry. We greatfully spending their much increased budget for acknowledge his and the Gallery’s help. photography.

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Contributors to this issue • , one of Britain’s most acute 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. and uncompromising photographers, has recently seen published a major book of his 9 A Readers’ Forum. work in England. David Lee who talks to him is a writer and critic. 10 Caught in the act, talking to David Lee about his new bookIn Flagrante.

9 Hugh Greenland is a photographer and Policy position and problems explained by responsible for photography at Brewery 13 Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. Arts Centre, Kendal. 14 Visits cities world-wide and reveals public 9 Thomas Struth born in 1954, studied places to be part of our collective photography with Bernd Becher in unconcious. Ulrich Loock provides a Dusseldorf. A major exhibition of his work context. was seen recently at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Ulrich Loock who 20 Documents London’s Docklands in a time writes on him contributed toUnconscious of transition and stills change into a period Places, catalogue to the show, from which of waiting. Kay Roberts comments on his essay has been adapted. his ‘Portraits of Buildings’. 9 Tom Evans, who has written frequently 26 Photographs in San Francisco and finds for CC, is presently Senior Research that the fact of the matter moves from a Fellow at the Royal College of Art.Kay given and becomes negotiable. Jack Roberts, who provided the text, will shortly Welpott considers the work. be showing this work at Actualities, her Docklands gallery. 32 In which Jonathan Robertson argues for the return of intuition as a means of 9 Catherine Wagner, from San Francisco, positioning photograhy in the world. was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She has exhibited widely and a Horrors of office life come flooding back to book of her work was published last year. 33 David Lee when he viewsWork Stations, In 1981 she worked as Artist in Residence a book and exhibition by Anna Fox. at Derby Lonsdale College, Derby.Jack Powerful work, poor packaging is Welpott, whose text first appeared in Alexandra Noble’s response to a Picture Magazine, is a photographer. limited edition book by David Newman. Ian Jeffery finds fragraces and 9 Jonathan Robertson, a photographer, flagrencies in Chris Killip’s new book teaches at Duncan of Jordonstone College and V & A exhibition while Cragie of Art, Dundee. Horsfield surpised by Verdi Yahooda’s recent installation that 9 Alexandra Noble, recently exhibitions celebrates conformity. organiser at the Photographers’ Gallery, London, now works for the South Bank 37 Colin Osman gives his verdict on recent Centre. Craigie Horsfield is an artist and publications. critic. Ian Jeffrey is a writer, critic and art historian. 38 Edith Tudor Hart’s radical 1930’s documentary work is currently touring 9 Val Williams, is a photographic historian Britain. Val Lloyd considers its place currently researching the life and work of within a history of women photographers. Ida Karr.

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. 9 Brian Human and Mark Haworth-Booth are respectively the magazine’s Eastern Signs of9 Is Roger Fenton photography’s 19th region correspondent and Curator of century star turn or a man who simply ‘got Photographs at the Victoria & Albert Sentience lucky’? asks lan Jeffrey. Museum, London. Private Places 12Areas where ‘people feel they have some 9 lan Jeffrey is an Art Historian. control’ photographed by Stephen McCoy. • Stephen McCoy, a photographer and teacher from Merseyside, has exhibited Pinpoint16 An insider’s gallery guide. This month widely. Impressions, York makes a case for the future. • Paul Wombell directs , York and is an image-maker and Perspective 18 On being a Photographer in Residence by author. Chris Dorley-Brown.

• Chris Dorley-Brown is presently Mother of Sons20 Gina Glover extracts work from a long Photographer in Residence at Homerton term project depicting a family Hospital in London. relationship. In which Richard Kraft photographs his 9 Gina Glover, a member of Wandsworth One to one26 wife. Photo Co-op, has seen her work used in a variety of contexts. Most recently she was a Her self, her daughter, her mother, her participant in Family — My History — My Past Present28 friends represented through Rhondda Self at Untitled Gallery, Sheffield. Bosworth’s expression of the past made present through photographs. 9 Richard Kraft is a photographer from London currently studying in the United States. Review33 ‘Mapplethorpe has matured’ says Emmanuel Cooper, viewing the 9 Rhondda Bosworth, a photographer photographer’s recent shows at the from New Zealand, is presently working in National Portrait Gallery and Hamilton’s, Europe aided by a grant from her country’s London. Katy Macleod reads intensity Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council. in Peter Fraser’s work now on show at Ffotogallery, Cardiff. And John Goto 9 Emmanuel Cooper, potter, writer and finds a new voice in British art through critic, contributes regularly to CC. pictures by Craigie Horsfield, seen at Cambridge Darkroom. 9 Katy Macleod, an Art Historian, teaches at Exeter College of Art & Design. Books in Brief37 Colin Osman gives his verdict on recent publications. 9 John Goto is a photographer and writer based in Oxford. Letter(s) 38 Is CC racist, sexist and uncaring for those with disabilities? Yorkshire Arts 9 Merlyn Tweedie recently edited Six Association accuse and Peter Turner Women Photographers, a book published replies. by PhotoForum, New Zealand.

Front cover: Photograph by Rhondda Bosworth.

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. • Tony Ray-Jones, who died of leukemia in 1972, was one of the more influential Pinpoint 9 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool policy, photographers of his generation.Peter position and problems explained by John Turner who writes on him is CC’s Editor MacDonald. and a friend of the late photographer.

• Jack Hulme, born in 1906, is a An appreciation by Peter Turner of a photographer and retired miner. Yorkshire Tony10 major and influential photographer whose Art Circus have recently published a book Ray-Jones work, little seen in the 1980’s, is now a of his work which is presently also to be touring exhibition. seen as a travelling exhibition. • John Sturrock, a self-taught A Photographic 14 Tales of village life by Jack Hulme, photojournalist, works through the Yorkshire miner and photographer who Network agency. In 1979 he was included in Memory first took up the camera in the 1920’s. Three Perspectives, a Hayward Gallery exhibition. He recently formed part of Britain in the 1980’s pictured by John Chris Killip’s Photographer’s selectionEye Right place20 Sturrock, a Network photojournalist. at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Right time Views on the responsibilities of his position come through an interview by Richard • Richard Ehrlich who writes on him is a Ehrlich. regular contributor. He is currently Right context researching the life and work of Tony Ray-Jones assisted by an award from The Photographers’ Trust. Review33 The canons of ‘pure’ photography have met their match in moves towards a • Francis Hodgson is a writer. He reviews manipulated image, argues Francis photography regularly for CCThe and Hodgson, seeing On the Border at Spectator. Special Photographers’ Company, London. In Edinburgh Jonathan 9 Jonathan Robertson leads the Robertson views Behold the Man at Photography Course at Duncan of Stills Gallery, finds an overdue debate Jordonstone College of Art, Dundee. opened, but wonders at its side-stepping a consciousness of self. O Jan Jeffrey, another regular contributor, is a writer, critic and art historian. Books in Brief37 Colin Osman’s survey of recent books.

Front cover: Photograph by Jack Hulme, courtesy of Yorkshire Art Circus to whom Talkback38 Could museums be the death of we offer thanks for their permission to photography? Ian Jeffrey ponders. re-print parts of the introduction to A Photographic Memory, the book they published of Hulme’s work.

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Battersea Arts Centre The Old Town Hall The Magazine Lavender Hill SW11 5TF 01-924 3017 for Independent Photography Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. 9 Maureen O. Paley is founder and A critic’s role examined by Robert director of Interim Art in London and a Talkback 9 Adams. freelance exhibitions curator. This year she is curating A British View for the Museum What is the ‘state of the art in Britain?’ fur Gestaltung, Zurich. Currency 10 enquires Maureen O. Paley, one of three nominators for images in this issue. 9 is a photographer presently living and working in Bristol whose works 1 Works by Lea Andrews, Hanna have been seen extensively in this country Portfolio 2 Collins, and Brian Griffin. and abroad. ‘Why are photographers forced to the 9 Murray R. Johnston is Head of Currency/224 margin’ asks Martin Parr, another Photography at Edinburgh College of Art, nominator. ‘And what of the future?’ is the one time Director of Stills Gallery, issue raised by Murray R. Johnston, the Edinburgh ahd co-founder of Scottish third to suggest images for inclusion. Photographic Works. Works by Paul Seawright, Andy 9 Robert Adams is a photographer and Portfolio26 Wiener, Dave Moore, Peter Fraser, writer living in Colorado. Adams’ and Cathy Watkins. Followed by Owen photographs were included in the recent Logan, Roger Palmer, Mari Mahr and ICA, London exhibitionAnother David Williams. Objectivity. He is much published as an image-maker and essayist. Image-makers64 On the makers of works published.

• William Bishop is a photographer and I Can Help is the title of ’ writer on photography. Review65 recently published book. William Bishop applauds the pictures and hopes 9 Francis Hodgson is a writer. He reviews he can. Are Art and Nature divisible photography regularly for CCThe and within photography? French curators think Spectator. ‘Yes’. Francis Hodgson begs to differ. Riches from 19th century Scottish 9 Jonathan Robertson, another regular photographers at the National Portrait contributor, is Head of Photography at Gallery of Scotland are seen as more Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, than a national success by Jonathan Dundee. Robertson. And Craigie Horsfield finds tales of redemption in Mari Mahr’s 9 Craigie Horsfield makes pictures and bookA Few Days in Geneva. writes. He has recently had a solo exhibition at Cambridge Darkroom. Books in Brief69 Colin Osman’s verdict on recent books. 9 Mark Haworth-Booth is Curator of Policy and position of the Victoria & Photographs at the Victoria & Albert Pinpoint70 Albert Museum’s Photographic Museum, London and a writer.Richard Department. Ehrlich who interviews him writes regularly for CC. Note: Works by Roger Palmer on pages 52-55 are without title or name at his request. Front cover: By Peter Fraser from ‘Towards an Absolute Zero’, 1986.

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Battersea Arts Centre The Magazine The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF for Independent 01-924 3017 Photography Contributors to this issue Frontlines, headlines and comment. • Val Williams, writes regularly for CC. In News 5 1986 Virago publishedWomen To introduce this all women issue Val Photographers, her study of 'the other Enclosures/ 9 Williams looks at the possibilities and observers’. Exposures prospects for women’s work within • Amanda Hopkinson, writer and picture photography. editor is another regular contributor. Most recently she acted as publicist forSpectrum, Amanda Hopkinson interviews the women’s photography festival. Perspective 10 Jean-Marie Simon, photojournalist and consultant to America’s Watch and • Alison Theaker, is a free-lance journalist Amnesty International. and Press Officer at the National Museum of Photography, Bradford. In the last of our insider’s gallery guide Pinpoint 13 series Alison Theaker explains policies • Shirley Baker is a photographer living in and position at Britain’s major Cheshire. Next year Boodaxc Books will photography museum in Bradford. publish her record of life in Manchester and Salford in the 60s. 14 Documents of Manchester and Salford as • Megan Jenkinson, lives and works in Street Life they changed during the 60s by Shirley Auckland, New Zealand where she Baker. lectures on photography at the University of Auckland. Vices now seen as virtues and the Virtus 18 breakdown in predictability that follows • Ute Eskildsen is Curator of Photography informs Megan Jenkinson’s at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, West Moralis constructions of another reality. Germany. Her latest exhibition, on Aenne Biermann, is currently at the Goethe Aenne Biermann, an important Institute, London. Foreground 24 contributor to 20s New Objectivity, assessed by Ute Eskildsen. • Graciela Iturbide is a photographer from Mexico. In 1987 she won the W. Eugene A spirit of place and culture is woven into Smith Award for humanistic photography. Senses of 26 Graciela Iturbide’s vision of Mexico. • Liz Heron is a free-lance writer. Until its Solitude merger with New Society she was photography critic for Newthe Statesman. An August Sander photograph provoked a Review 33 novel. Liz Heron reads it.Fixations, a five • Katy Macleod, an Art Historian, teaches artist exhibition in Exeter shakes up Katy at Exeter College of Art & Design. Macleod. And Kellie Jones and • Maxine Walker is a photographer from Maxine Walker preview Birmingham and a member of the group Transatlantic Traditions, responsible forPolareyes, the magazine for Camerawork’sSpectrum show from New black women photographers. York. • Kellie Jones, a New York based curator, In this all woman issue Heather Forbes organised Transatlantic Traditions, the Books in Brief 37 reviews recent books. Spectrum show presently on view at Camerawork, London.• • Grace Robertson asks for realism and Talkback 38 professionalism in the business of surviving • Heather Forbes, who lives and works in as a photographer. London, is a photographer and photographic book publisher under the Travelling Light imprint.

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. • Helen Ennis is Curator of Photography at The Australian National Gallery, Change/Exchange9 ‘Beyond the tyranny of distance’ is how Canberra. Helen Ennis over-views Australian photography at her nation’s Bicentenary. • Les Walkling, from Melbourne, lectures in Media Arts at Phillip Institute of Experience found in the moments and Technology. Les Walkling 10 passages of life inform the artist’s work.

• Deborah Ely, late of Watershed, Bristol, What is different between practise in is now Co-ordinator for The Victorian No parallel 16 Australia and Britain? asks Liz Wells of Centre for Photography, Melbourne. her Australian colleague Deborah Ely.

• Liz Wells is a lecturer and free-lance ‘Our destination’, wrote Henry Miller, ‘is writer from Bristol. Jacky Redgate 18 never a place but rather a new way of looking at things’ — an idea applicable to • Jacky Redgate, lives in Sydney. She is Jacky Redgate’s visual allegories. presently working in Berlin as part of the Overseas Studios Program of the Australia Fiona Hall24 Images interleaved, found then Council. constructed are the tangible ends of Fiona Hall’s time-displacing collages. • Edward Colless is a writer. His essay first appeared inPhotofile, Autumn 1988. Max Pam28 Taking his cues from photography as a matter of fact, Max Pam has investigated • Fiona Hall, active in helping this issue how real fact is when represented through come into being, currently teaches the camera. photography in Adelaide, South Australia. Review33 ‘The most tantalising photo-work for years’ • Max Pam, lives in Perth, Western is Ian Jeffrey’s response to Roger Australia. An inveterate traveller, he has Palmer’s recent show. Meanwhile Ivan spent much of his career in Europe, Asia Gaskell sees John Goto taking on the and the Indian sub-continent. challenge of an artist’s responsibility to humanity and Mark Durden wonders at • Reviewers: Ian Jeffrey and Ivan Gaskell who is watching whom while viewing Pavel are Art Historians and Mark Durden a Buchler’s installation of Anonymous recent graduate in Fine Art from Glasgow Portraits. School of Art. Books in Brief37 Recently published books considered by 9 Alan Cruickshank is a photographer Colin Osman. from South Australia. Talkback38 ‘Fad is good’ is Alan Cruickshank’s ironic note as he questions an observed lemming rush to ‘the New’ in Australia.

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. 9 David Reason, lectures at The University of Kent at Canterbury in Foreground9 Visions of Land and its implications in Communication and Image Studies. human history are considered by David Reason. • Werner Hannapel, lives and works in Essen, West Germany where he studied at Werner Hannappel12 Landscapes the Folkwangschule. His work is in collection internationally, including the Perspective 16 A statement of intent from Arnhel de Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Serra.

9 Arnhel de Serra is currently a student at Willie Doherty 18Views Derry and discusses his work with West Surrey College of Art & Design Christopher Coppock. orf. A major exhibition of his work

9 Willie Doherty, is an artist from Derry. Nigel Fogg26 Landscapes Christopher Coppock who interviews him is presently Director Ffotogallery, Cardiff. The Wionogrand30 300,000 unedited images left by the 9 Nigel Fogg, was a photographer and influential social landscapist prompt Gerry curator in his native South Africa. Since Problem Badger to muse on a proper epitaph. 1985 he has lived in Britain where he makes a range of camera bags.

9 Gerry Badger, photographer, architect Review33 Liz Heron encircles The Wheel of Life to and critic is currently preparing an find the recent Spectrum Women’s Festival overview of British photography for the as diverse as it should be. Ian Jeffrey Barbican Art Gallery, London. reads Two Blue Buckets and thinks Peter Fraser has ‘the knack’. Man Ray’s Self 9 Reviewers: Liz Heron is a writer, Ian Portrait sets Ian Mackay wondering at Jeffrey an Art Historian, Ian Mackay a the artist’s status. And Thomas Joshua painter and writer and Jonathan Robertson Cooper’sDreaming The Gokstadt prompts a photographer and lecturer. Jonathan Robertson to seek the point where mystery resides. 9 Root Cartwright, is a photographer and garden designer. His work was exhibited Books in Brief37 Peter Turner’s views on recent books. recently at the Metro Cinema, London. Talkback38 ‘Look at the work not the lable’ argues Root Cartwright who is tired of tradition’s restraint.

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