Creative Camera Jan-Dec 1988
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Editor:Peter Turner Assistant Editor:Eileen Pilkington 1 Consultant Editor:Colin Osman Design Consultant /Pavel Biichler 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. Distribution Britain: (Non News Trade) Central Books, London Memorial Fund USA: Photo Eye, Austin, Texas A fund to mark Raymond Moore’s grave with a head Ganada: Speedimpex, Weston, stone has been established. Contributions are reques Ontario ted and should be sent to: Mary Moore (Memorial Australia: Manic Exposeur, Fund), Half Morton House, Chapelknowe, Canonbie, Melbourne, Victoria Dumfriesshire DG14 OYF. Editor:Peter Turner Assistant Editor:Eileen Pilkington 2/1988 Consultant Editor:Colin Osman Design Consultant:Pave\ Biichler Battersea Arts Centre The Magazine The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF for Independent 01-924 3017 Photography Contributors to this issue O Gerry Badger 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 Hayward Gallery, 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.