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DAVID BRIERS ON PAUL BEAUCHAMP AND CALUM COLVIN AT CHAPTER IAN WALKER REVIEWS THE REPHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY SWAN SONG With this issue of I am resigning as Publisher and Editor. It has been 4 News & Views more than 21 years and the magazine has passed through innumerable financial crises in Eileen Pilkington those years. I simply feel that as I approach my sixtieth birthday I wish to concentrate more on the things that I enjoy doing; taking photographs, writing articles, doing 7 Current Comment/ research, and even perhaps getting paid for it. In the last few years the work I have been doing is more and more that of a Publisher and less and less of that of an Editor. The Esther Samra future would seem to indicate only more of the same. I think that the work has got to be done now by a younger man and perhaps someone more specialised in business 8 Still Life/Review procedures. Keith Robinson Some of the issues, particularly the double issues, where I have been able to exercise my talents have been greatly enjoyable, even if largely unrewarded. The fact that they have been so well received augers well for my future. I cannot pretend to share the same 10 Paul Beauchamp and Calum amount of enthusiasm for all forms of photography and it seems sometimes to me as Colvin/Review David Briers though the increasing academic influence on contemporary photography is in danger of replacing the taking of photographs with talking about them. There is a place for good reviews and sound discussion, but I fear that increasingly there is a risk of photography 12 Sunil Gupta being swamped by gobbledigook jargon. There is still one article I published which to this day I don't understand and it is not the article where the printers a few years ago 14 Julian Woollatt transposed two columns of type and nobody even noticed! My journalistic background influences me as a communicator and I have always seen the function of an Editor as a bridge between a photographer and the public, the job is 16 Rebecca Haines not to mystify but to de-mystify. I believe my successor would understand perfectly what I meant. Obviously one canno.t live with a magazine for 21 years without having some 18 Cheryl Edwards emotion on parting, but the child is grown-up and at 21 able to look after itself and financially provided for, at least for the time being. The parent can do no more. Three Women Working/ I would like to pay tribute to all those who in the past have helped in the struggle to 19 make the magazine viable, not least my wife and those mentioned in The Short History Susan Butler who often worked hard for poor wages because they shared the belief in the magazine's philosophy. When the first issue appeared, photography in this country was very 20 Hermione Wiltshire different — no photographic galleries, no Arts Council grants to anyone. My satisfaction is that I can leave the magazine the most soundly financed it has ever been and that during my years it has helped bring about a change in photography in this country. 22/25 David Townend The Bookroom will continue as before under Coo Press Limited, run by Val Petrie and Grace White. It has always been financially separate and not in receipt of Arts Council 26 Mandy Harman & David money. It will be renamed, at this moment it seems likeliest that it will become 'The Townend Documentary Photographic Book Room'. Since Mss Petrie and White conceal two Mrs Osmans, this is another reason why I shall continue to be actively involved in photography.—CO. Portraiture/ Eileen Pilkington

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32/35 The Rephotographic Survey/ NEXT MONTH Review by Ian Walker IN COLOUR and PAUL GRAHAM 36 Books Received

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3 IN COLOUR MARTIN PARR and PAUL GRAHAM

DOCUMENTARY FORUM The Documentary Photography Archive/Manchester PLUS CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS and PETER CHARLESWORTH CONTENTS

4 News & Views Eileen Pilkington

6 Painting/Photography Review/Nannette Aldred

8/12 The Documentary Forum

13 The Valleys Project/ Susan Beardmore

14 Connections at Cornerhouse and Open Eye/Sue Grayson Ford

15 Island Flistory Trust/ Francesca Odell, Mark and his friends have a scramble down by the old railway line, Gilfach. Tonyrefail, from The Valleys Project. Mike Seaborne BRITISH DOCUMENTARY . . . WHERE TO NOW? 16 The Newport Survey/ Documentary photography, particularly social documentary, has Ron McCormick traditionally been the backbone of photography in Britain. Yet some of the familiar assumptions associated with it — the idea of 17/18 The Documentary the 'truth' or evidential value of the photograph or of helping to Photography Archive/ give voice to those presumably without means to speak for Interview with Caroline themselves — have increasingly come into question, especially Warhurst &■ Susan Butler over the past decade. For some photographers, the notions of 'social' and 'documentary' can no longer colaesce, and they have rejected 'straight' photography altogether in favour of set-up or 19/20 The Point of Sale/ manipulated work for expressing social and political concerns. Martin Parr For other photographers basic questions about documentary practice have become more urgent — questions about when, 21/23 Past Caring/ where and how to use the camera as well as how to supplement Paul Graham the limited information of the photograph and exercise some control over its use in print. Surprisingly there has been little in 24/29 Chris Steele-Perkins the way of organized debate on these issues which affect photographic practice in Britain perhaps more than anywhere 30/33 Peter Charlesworth else. The Documentary Forum in this issue is a step in this direction as an airing of a diversity of current opinion, which we hope to supplement in the near future with further responses 34/25 Striking Women: from our readers. We hope the views put forward will give Communities Et Coal/ additional perspective on the other features included: a sampling Review/Amanda Flopkinson of a number of current documentary projects, an interview concerning the new Documentary Photography Archive in 36 Books Received Manchester, and work by four British photographers — new colour documents by Paul Graham and Martin Parr, portraits 38 The Documentary Forum from Beirut by Peter Charlesworth, and Chris Steele-Perkins' (continued from page 12) images of Africa. — S.B.

Cover Image, Martin Parr. Free bus to Partington from Tesco Hypermarket, Ir/am (from The Point of Sale for the Documentary Photography Archive) PERSPECTIVES ON LANDSCAPE

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PETER HAGERTY ON THE LAST RESORT, JOHN STATHATOS ON ANDY GOLDSWORTHY MIKE WEAVER/THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART ON HAMISH FULTON/CAMP FIRE 4 News & Views Eileen Pilkington

7 The Tintern Show/ Review Kris Jones

9 The Last Resort/ Review Peter Hagerty

10 Andy Goldsworthy's Evidences/Review John Stathatos

12 The Photographic Art/ Mike Weaver

16 Oded Shimshon

22 Elizabeth Williams

26 Paul Hill/Landmarks

32 Peter Jennings/ John Davies, Tunstead Quarry, near Buxton, from the exhibition of his work at the Embattled Landscapes Stills Gallery, Edinburgh from March 8 to April 19.

34 John Goto/ Albuferian Sketches

36 Hamish Fulton's Camp Fire/ Review Ian Jeffrey

38 Books Received NEXT MONTH DAVID MORSE ON CONCEPTUAL PHOTOGRAPHY RECENT WORK BY , MARI MAHR AND MITRA TABRIZIAN Cover Image, Oded Shimshon, Darley Abbey Park, Derby IMAGES BY KAREN KNORR, MARI MAHR AND M/TRA TABRIZIAN DAVID MORSE ELABORATED PHOTOGRAPHY JAN GROVER ON 'S RICH AND POOR KEITH ROBINSON ON IMAGES FROM THE CASASOLA ARCHIVE CONTENTS

4 News & Views Eileen Pilkington

6 ITierra Y Libertad! / Review/Keith Robinson

8 No Pasaran!/David Mellor

10 Elaborated Photography/ David Morse

13/19 Karen Knorr/Passionate Attitudes

20/28 Mitra Tabrizian/ Correct Distance

29/33 Mari Mahr/ldle Times and A Few Days In Geneva

34 Jim Goldberg's Photographs/ From THIN PROTECTIVE COVERINGS — FILM STILLS' by Hannah Collins. Image size 14' x 10'. An installation of My Adventures Amongst The large scale photographic images recently seen at Matt's Gallery, . Illustration picture by Tom Evans. See also back cover. Rich and Poor Jan Grover This issue of Creative Camera presents three photographers whose work deals with constructed imagery. Karen Knorr and Mitra Tabrizian both derive aspects of their work from 38 Books Received theoretical sources, combining these with a cool and elegant visual style reminiscent of film stills. Both of these photographers create staged images, while Mari Mahr works in ways more similar to montage or collage. Mari Mahr also draws on very different sources, using personal memories and recollected stories from childhood. She invites the viewer into a world of reverie, and quickens the sense of how personal history shapes imagination. By contrast, Karen Knorr's work and Mitra Tabrizian's draw on a range of broader, more public references. Cover Image, Mari Mahr, This emphasis in both photographers sharpens the sense of cultural context, and of how About Photography visual culture in particular represents and shapes social roles and attitudes. All three photographers practice what David Morse terms 'elaborated photography'. Using the example of Ansel Adams, Morse traces a number of familiar ideas traditionally associated with photography which have tended to discourage the development of 'elaborated' NEXT MONTH imagery. Reviews this month include Keith Robinson's discussion of images from the Casasola Archive (Tierra yLibertad, originated by MoMA, Oxford) and Jan Grover's critique THE NEW CREATIVE CAMERA of Jim Goldberg's Rich and Poor, a book of portraits with brief texts by the photographer's subjects. S.B. Scrutinized RogerMayne Revisited EPeter Fraser Exposed Across Four Decades Portfolios, critiques, news & reviews in the magazine for independent photography Editor: Peter Turner Assistant Editor: Eileen Pilkington Consulting Editor: Colin Osman Design Consultant: Pavel Buchler Advertising Manager: Val Petrie Battersea Arts Centre The Old Town Hall Lavender Hill SW11 5TF 01-924 3017

Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, Headlines & comment. Richard Ehrlich is a writer with particular interest in photography. Currently he is Talkback 9 Who is to blame for bad photographic working on a book on Julia Margaret books?Richard Ehrlichenquires. Cameron. Foreground10 Mark Haworth-Boothlooks sideways at Mark Haworth-Booth is Curator of influences on British photography and Photographs at the Victoria & Albert describes the 50s ‘New Utopianism’. Museum and author of several books and 12 Mayne’s five year Southam Street project, catalogues. completed in 1961 is now on view at the RogerMayne lives in Dorset. During the 1950s Victoria & Albert Museum — part of his and 60s he photographed for magazines acclaimed retrospective. We look at another diverse as Vogue and Architectural Design and aspect of this neglected photographer’s worked forPeace News, and The work — his 1961 essay on Sheffield.Theo Sunday Times. Recently his landscape Crosby,who commissioned the photographs have been widely exhibited. photographs recalls the period. who wrote the text is a member of Peter Fraser 18 A Bristol-based independent photographer, the Pentagram Design Partnership. He Fraser is part of the ‘new colour’ published Mayne in 1961. movement. For his first extensive magazine Peter Fraser is a photographer born in 1953. showing, pictures from four major projects are published. discusses Now working in Bristol he has exhibited William Bishop throughout Britain. This publication the work. precedes an exhibition at the Photographers’ Perspective 26 A Statement of Intent: this month from Gallery, London. William Bishop who Lewis Baltz, the influential ‘New discusses Fraser’s work is a writer on Topographer’. photography. He has taught photography at Beaton at the 28 Cecil Beaton can be seen as the The Camden, Training Centre since 1984. photographic phenomenon without peer. Lewis Baltz is a Guggenheim Award winning Barbican David Mellorand Susan Butler photographer based in California. Last year examine the myth and discuss background the Victoria & Albert Museum mounted a to Mellor’s choice of more than 500 prints retrospective of his work. currently showing at London’s Barbican Art Gallery. David Melhr lectures in the School of English and American studies at Sussex University. Review 33 Three critics —Ian Jeffrey, John He has written extensively on photography Stathatosand Max Kozloff,question and organised several exhibitions.Susan ideas thrown upThe by Photographic Art, Butler who interviews himCreative is Camera’s Mike Weaver’s book previewed in our most recent Co-Editor. April issue. PlusRob Powellon Street Photographs, Roger Mayne’s new book and Rob Powell has recently been appointed its historical implications. Director of Stills Gallery, Edinburgh. He is Colin Osman’soverview of books also an arts journalist and writer on Books in Brief37 published world-wide. photography. Equal38 Peter Lloydsends a Letter from Los Ian Jeffrey heads the Art History department Angeles with news of Californian at Goldsmith’s College, London. He Opportunities curiosities. contributes regularlyCreative to Camera. Max Kozloff, an American writer, critic and ISSN: 0011-0876 photographer, is author of many books and i Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with articles. assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP Typesetters, John Stathatos is a Greek photographer and Unit 13, 21 Wren.Street, London WC1 and writer based in London. printed by Jackson Wilson Limited, Leeds. Peter Lloyd is a photographer and writer based in Paris and Los Angeles. Front cover: Peter Fraser, Public Park, Quotations from Colin Maclnnes’ book Pontypridd, 1985, from The Valleys Absolute Beginners are used by courtesy of Project courtesy of The Ffotogallery, Penguin Books. . Thomas Joshua Cooper The photographer as artist?

Helen Chadwick The artist as image-maker?

Victor Burgin The image-maker as artist? Editor: Peter Turner Assistant Editor: Eileen Pilkington Consulting Editor: Colin Osman Design Consultant: Pavel Btichler Advertising Manager: Val Petrie

Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, Headlines & comment. Carole Naggar is a writer from Paris. She Things seen... 9 The more we are shown, the less we see is specialises in photography. Carole Naggar’sview in her Letter Laszlo Moholy-Nagy is most closely from Paris. identified with his work at the Bauhaus, firstly in Germany and the New Bauhaus in Foreground10 Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s1927 treatise Chicago. A man of many parts within on photography’s relationship to other experimental or radical art, he died in 1946. media. Thomas Joshua Cooper, born in America Myths of 12 Thomas Joshua Cooperis reknowned he studied at the University of New Mexico. as one of the few photographers to have Currently Head of Photography at Glasgow Recollection been adopted by the Fine Art School of Art, he has exhibited widely and establishment. One of his rare magazine internationally. Cooper’s work is in portfolios is accompanied by thoughts on principal collections.Graeme Murray who this from himself andGraeme Murray. participated in text for this piece runs a A Mirror to18 Known for her inventive use of media, gallery in Edinburgh. Helen Chadwickuses references drawn Helen Chadwick is a graduate of Brighton Yourself from art to construct works. For the Polytechnic and Chelsea School of Art. Her works we publish, to be seen at London’s work has been included in many ICA, she has used a photocopier. In exhibitions, most recently at London’s interview withTom Evans,Chadwick ICA. This show will later be seen in considers the idea of her work and its Birmingham, Exeter, Glasgow and Preston. relationship to photography. Sharon Kivland and Pavel Btichler are both artists who use photography. Until recently Perspective 26 A statement of intent: this month from the former was Exhibitions Organiser at Tom Evans. Camerawork in London. Her work has Victor Burgin 29 As an image-maker, teacher and theorist, been widely exhibited. Btichler is also a Victor Burginis held as strong graphic designer and has been responsible influence on a whole school of for many exhibitions at Cambridge photographic practise.John Roberts Darkroom. examines Burgin’s ideas in the light of two Victor Burgin is known equally for his book recent exhibitions. and theoretical writings as for his work as Joel Peter Witkin’s new and controversial an artist. He is Senior Lecturer in the Review 33 monograph is consideredGerry by History and Theory of the Visual Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London and has Badger. Simon Cuttslooks at Between Dark and Dark a recent book by exhibited widely throughout Britain, Thomas Joshua Cooper, comparing it to Europe and America. Open the newly published bookwork by John Roberts, who writes about him, is a Brian Griffin. writer. His book ‘Utopian Readings: Politics, Art and Modernity’ will be Books in Brief37 Colin Osman’soverview of books published by Verso later this year. published world wide. is a photographer, writer and Talkback 38 Why do artists fear being mistaken for architect. His writings on photography have photographers? What do photographers been published in Britain and America. He fear about art?Sharon Kivlandand has organised several exhibitions including Pavel Biichlerconverse. ‘The Photographer as Printmaker’ for the Arts Council. Simon Cutts is a poet, book-maker and gallery director. He runs Coracle Press. ISSN: 0011-0876 Tom Evans is a painter and photographer. Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with Most recently his work has been seen at assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Camden Arts Centre. A lecturer at West Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP Surrey College of Art, he assisted in the Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, development of this issue. London WC1 and printed by Jackson D A Bailey is a photographer and Wilson Limited, Leeds. researcher, currently working on a M.Phil at the Open University. Front cover: Victor Burgin, Office at Night 1985-86. Image from one of seven triptyches. Christer Stromholm Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. Peter Fryer is a photographer and Why is independent photography so Photographic Workshop Organiser for Talkback 9 starved? asksPaul Hill. Newcastle Media Workshops, Newcastle upon Tyne. Foreground10 Dawn Ades examines photography’s Paul Hill is a photographer from relationship to Surrealism on the eve of Derbyshire. He has been widely exhibited L ’Amour Fou, a major exhibition and published and is known for his teaching showing Surrealist photography to be seen and writing. at the , London. Dawn Ades teaches Art History and Theory Out of12 Britain’s first monographic presentation at Essex University. She edited the of work byChrister Stromholm, catalogue for Dada and Surrealism Isolation Sweden’s most influential photographer. Reviewed, is the author Salvador of Dali From a background of the Spanish Civil and is presently working on her book War, the resistance in World War II, a Photomontage to be published in the Paris art training where he later ‘sat by autumn. Satre’s knees’, then activities varied as John Webb is an English photographer of smuggling and gold-digging, Stromholm the natural landscape who lives and works distilled a life’s experiences into picture­ in Sweden. His pictures have been shown making and teaching. Introducing the widely in this country, Sweden and Europe. portfolio,John Webbexplains Christer Stromholm is a photographer and Stromholm’s place in Scandanavian teacher. He lives at Plogattan I, S-116, 34 photography. Introducing Stromholm, Stockholm, Sweden. Moona Bjorklundoffers a personal Moona Bjorklund is a photographer and appreciation of the man and his ideas. works as Stromholm’s printer. Guy Brett is a writer whose new book Review 33 The Pond, a recently published book by Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and , is consideredRobert by Modern History will be published in Adams. John Stathatosexamines September. He also lectures and organises Next Tomorrow, a recent Cambridge exhibitions. Darkroom show andGuy Brettlooks at Robert Adams is an American No Pasaranl, a touring exhibition of photographer and writer. His latest book Spanish Civil War pictures reviewed in Summer Nights was recently published by our April issue. Aperture. Books in Brief37 Colin Osman’sview of books published John Stathatos is a London-based Greek world-wide. photographer and writer. John B. Turner is Director of the Elam Fine Withering Arts Printing Research Unit at the In a letter from New Zealand,John B. University of Auckland. He has curated Contempt Turnserwonders at world ignorance of several exhibitions and acted as Editor of his country’s photography. PhotoForum from 1974-1984.

ISSN: 0011-0876 Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, London WC1 and printed by Jackson Wilson Limited, Leeds. Front cover: by Christer Stromholm who writes ‘The girl in the red hat is my mother. Her name was Lizzie and she was born in 1885. Sometime after her death I found this hand-coloured photograph wrapped in an old newspaper dated 1908. I took the photograph of the picture with a Polaroid 18 x 24 at the end of the 1970s’. Bruce Gilden Walks a city beat Checks out consumer culture Harry Diamond Survives systems Contributors to this issue News Frontlines, headlines and comment. • A. D. Coleman is an American writer and critic. Author of several books, he has Talkback Who profits from photojournalism and also contributed to newspapers and documentary? asksA. D. Coleman. photographic magazines. Foreground As Photography and Surrealism receives • Keith Robinson is a graduate student at critical acclaim at London’s Hayward Essex University, writer and exhibitions Gallery,Keith Robinsonexamines organiser. He was most recently responsible works by Lee Miller, recently restored to for a show by the Indian photographer public attention. Ashvin Mehta. • Harry Diamond has been photographing More since 1969. A stagehand for 20 years, he is Harry Diamondhas been taking self-taught in photography. His pictures Independent pictures on his own terms for almost 20 have been widely published and exhibited years.Tom Evanslooks into a — his last solo exhibition was at Michael Than Most photographer outside the Independent Parkin Fine Art in 1985.Tom Evans who network. writes on him is a photographer and critic. The Uses of As Lee Friedlander enjoys his first Evans’ work appeared in CC 6/1986. major retrospective in Britain,Richard • Richard Ehrlich, a regular contributor to Confusion Ehrlichanswers the question ‘What is it Creative Camera, is a writer with a strong that makes this work so important?’. affection for photography. He is presently I Can Help Welsh-basedPaul Reas turns away from working on a book on Julia Margaret romantic but untypical mining Cameron. communities and looks instead at the arid • Paul Reas is from and studied impersonality of new housing estates. photography at Gwent College of Higher Susan Beardmorediscusses Reas’ Education in Newport where he now works. implications. In 1984-85 he was commissioned by Ffotogallery, Cardiff to photograph newA Penny to see Roaming New York, armed with a camera technology in South , since then he Bruce Gildenbrings chutjzpah to his has been documenting housing estates. Thisthe Peep Show self-assigned task of picturiAg street-life in work was recently seen at Watershed, the 1980s. ‘But is bravado and a flash-gun Bristol and Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. all you need?’ asksGerry Badger. Susan Beardmore who writes on the work is Review Carolyn Blooreon ‘Sun Gardens’, Director of Ffotogallery. Larry Schaf’s book on Anna Atkins, the • Bruce Gilden, from New York, has been first woman photographer. published and exhibited internationally. His D. A. Bailey on ‘South Africa The work was last seen in Britain as part of the Cordoned Heart’ a photographic plea for American Images show and can be seen this truth and change. summer in a solo exhibition at the Arles Terry Mordenon ‘Witness to Change’, Festival. Gerry Badger who provides a an album of New Zealand life between critical context for Gilden’s pictures is a 1940-65. photographer, writer and architect. Martin Harrisonon Barbican Art • Carolyn Bloore has worked on several Gallery’s continuing Cecil Beaton exhibitions concerned with early exhibition. photography — the most recent was ‘A Vision Exchanged: Amateurs and Books In Brief 37 Colin Osman’soverview of books Photography in Mid-Victorian ’, published world wide. seen at the V & A, London and the National For Love or 38‘I cannot stand intolerant photographers’ Museum of Photography, Film and TV, writes John Webbin a Letter from Bradford. Glory Stockholm. • D. A. Bailey is a photographer and writer. He is currently working towards an ISSN: 0011-0876 M.Phil at the Open University. Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with • Terry Morden studied photography at assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Trent Polytechnic. He is now Exhibitions Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP Officer at the National Museum of Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, Photography, Film and TV in Bradford. London WC1 and printed by Jackson % Martin Harrison is a writer and Wilson Limited, Leeds. exhibitions organiser. Until its demise he Front cover: Top: Paul Reas, Woman directed the Olympus Gallery in London. with bread and chocolates, Christmas, • John Webb is an English photographer 1985. Bottom: Bruce Gilden, Syracuse, living and working in Sweden. N.Y. Work from Berlin

Pavel Buchler John Davies John Gossage Michael Schmidt Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. • Richard Butchins is an Oxford based Talkback 9 Is rubbish obscuring real photography? photographer. Richard Butchinsquestions the • Michael Schmidt, who lives and works in medium’s fate at the hands of institutions. Berlin, was born there in 1945. In 1976 he The Wall 10 Michael Schmidt, Pavel Biichler, founded the ‘Werkstatt fur Photographic John Daviesand John Gossage Kreuzberg’, an important exhibitions present images in reaction to 25 years of centre. More of his work can be seen in the the frontier created between East and ‘Rest of the Authentic’ exhibition opening West Germany — a divide that split at , York before a Berlin and Europe’s continent. With the pictures come extracts from ‘The Wall nation-wide tour. Jumper’, an acclaimed novelPeter by • Pavel Biichler is a Czechoslovakian Schneider.Published by Allison & artist, designer and exhibitions organiser. Busby it offers a Berlin writer’s context to He was responsible for the recent the visual works. Cambridge Darkroom landscape show Review 12 Gerry Badgeron the visual bricks and ‘Boundaries’. theoretical mortar underpinning a *John Davies studied photography at monumental publishing project. ‘The \ Trent Polytechnic and his work has Work of Atget’, a four volume study of a subsequently been widely exhibited. In 1984 seminal photographer is now complete. he was commissioned to photograph in Virginia Heckertpreviews ‘The Rest of Berlin. A book of Davies’ landscape the Authentic’, a major exhibition of new pictures is to be published later this year. West German photography about to open • John Gossage lives in Washington DC. at Impressions Gallery, York. Active as a photographer, teacher and Books in Brief37 Colin Osmancomments on books curator he studied photography with Lisette published world-wide. Model, Alexey Brodovitch and Bruce Standing over 38 Wimps being pushed around at America’s Davidson. Gossage’s work was last seen in Society for Photographic Education catch Britain as part of the ‘American Images’ There Peter Lloyd’seye in a Letter from exhibition. Baltimore. • Gerry Badger is a photographer, writer, architect and exhibitions organiser. Extracts fromThe Wall Jumperby Numerous of his writings on Eugene Atget Peter Schneider are reproduced by permission of Allison & Busby Limited. have been published, including a book which came out last year. • Virginia Heckert is currently living in Berlin and working on a Masters thesis on Bernd and Hiller Becher for the University of California. • Peter Lloyd is a roving photographer and writer who moves between the United States, Europe and Australasia. ISSN: 0011-0876 Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, London WC1 and printed by Jackson Wilson Limited, Leeds.

Front cover: Pavel Biichler, Charlie, A Czech Point, from 2200th Anniversary of The Great Wall of China, Berlin 1961-1986. Seeing Edward Weston News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. Contributors to this issue Edward Weston 9 Richard Ehrlichintroduces our anniversary issue devoted to the life and work of a singular photographer. • Edward Weston, born 1886, died 1958 Westonin his own words makes a became one of photography’s most Perspective 10 statement of intent. eloquent and influential practitioners. This issue is produced in honour of the 100th Masterclass 12 As a long-time friend of Weston anniversary of Weston’s birth. Beaumont Newhallwas uniquely placed to watch the photographer work. • Beaumont Newhall is one of the world’s In this extract from a forthcoming book leading photo-historians whose scholarship he describes Weston’s methods and has been recognised for 50 years. Many attitude to pure photography. books by Newhall have been published, Part one of a pictorial selection covering including ‘The History of Photography’, Portfolio16 some ofEdward Weston’sseminal now in its 5th edition. works. • Tom Evans is a photographer, writer and teacher. He is a frequent contributor to The Heroic Self 20 Weston the portraitist, examinedTom by Evans. Creative Camera. • Lewis Baltz has written quite widely on Portfolio23 More works byWeston. photography but is best known as a photographer. A new book of his workExquisite Textures26 Richard Ehrlichengages Weston in his ‘San Quentin Point’ is about to be role as photographer of still-lifes and Noble Forms nudes. published. • Peter Hagerty is a photographer from Beyond 30 As a landscapist, Weston is thought of in Liverpool and a former Director of The romantic vein.Lewis Baltz argues for his later work to be viewed less Open Eye Gallery. Romance subjectively. • Katy McLeod teaches History of Art at Exeter College of Art & Design. In 1983 she Review 33 Martin Parr, John Davies and Vanley won the Berol Bursary Award and is Burke were all commissioned to currently continuing her research into photograph the Liverpool-Manchester gallery-based arts education. link.Peter Hagertyreviews results. • Sunil Gupta is a London-based freelance Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, recently photographer and writer. His pictures brought together works from Jem Southam and Martin Parr to form ‘Coast appeared in our January issue. Presently he to Coast’.Katy McLeodlooks at their is serving on the Arts Council’s work and seaside myths. ‘God in Wales’, Photography Advisory Group. a recently published book of student’s • Jacqueline de Gier is a writer and photographs is consideredSunil by traveller who won an award for her film Guptaand ‘Five Women documentary on news cameramen. She Photographers’, a forthcoming Channel 4 contributes regularly to ‘New Society’ and TV series is previewed byJacqueline is a consultant editor on a leading Dutch de Gier. magazine. Books in Brief37 Colin Osman’soverview of books published world-wide. Talkback 38 Between politics and patronage, argue Front cover: Edward Weston, Pepper, The Box Brownieslies a middle- 1930 ground. Isn’t it time non-aligned Special Note All Edward Weston pictures photographers were given some credence? are © 1981 The University of Arizona they ask. Board of Regents and reproduced by permission of ISSN: 0011-0876 The Center for Creative Photography, Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with Tucson assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC Extracts from Beaumont Newhall’s Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP forthcoming bookSupreme Instants: and Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, The Photography of Edward Weston London WC1 and printed by Jackson published by permission of Thames & Wilson Limited, Leeds. Hudson Ltd, London Alastair Haines Goes Back to creative School Visits Doughnut City

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Contributors to this issue News 5 Frontlines, headlines and comment. • Alastair Haines was born in 1963. After a brief career freelancing for ‘The ‘Send them 10 As one of this year’s photography Hereford Times’ he began studies at West graduates,Alastair Haines brings a Surrey College of Art & Design in to School . . freshness and graphic strength to child where he graduated this year. portraits. • Colin Osman, long-time Editor and Foreground14 Looking back to the time when Publisher of ‘Creative Camera’ until his photographic postcards ruled the visual retirement earlier this year, is a roost,Colin Osmancomments on a photographer, journalist and book and recent show. postcard collector. With images in turn mysterious, surreal • Emmanual Cooper is a free-lance writer Fact and 16 and journalist. His latest book ‘The and erotic,Arthur Tresshas been described as ‘one of America’s most Sexual Perspective’, a work on Fantasy Homosexuality in Western Art was innovative picturemakers’.Emmanuel Cooperprovides an introduction to a published in September. • Anna Fox is currently working on an Tress retrospective currently touring Britain. Industry Year commission for the Scott Gallery, North West Arts and Doughnut City20 Taking her cue from concepts of ‘new Hydrocarbons GB Ltd — her pictures will colour’,Anna Foxvisits Basingstoke be seen at the Gallery in Lancaster in ‘jewel in the crown of the M3/M4 high- January 1987. Fox studied at West Surrey tech corridor’. College of Art & Design. Perspective 24 A statement of attitudes fromGueorgui • Gueorgui Pinkhassov, from Russia, was Pinkhassov,a Russian photographer an assistant film cameraman in Moscow. now working in the West. He began working in still photography in 1975, inspired by the film ‘Mirror’ by Children of26 First published picture essay on an Tarkovski and has been widely published immigrant communitySteve by Hart, a in Soviet magazines and books. Holyoke young photographer working in a classic Pinkhassov left the Soviet Union in 1985 genre. to marry and live in France. Review 33 ‘Hot Light/Half-Made Worlds’, a recent • Steve Hart, born in 1962, has book by Alex Webb is applauded by photographed in Asia, Europe, North Sunil Gupta;‘Surfacing’, a touring America and Japan. He studied in exhibition culled from this year’s graduate London, Massachusetts and Arizona and shows falls toDavid Briers’ view; has recently been working with Magnum W Eugene Smith’s recent retrospective photographers in London. provokes thoughts of photographic • Sunil Gupta is a London-based responsibilities fromNigel Warburton freelance photographer and writer andBrian Humanquestions ideas working through ‘Network’, the thrown-up by ‘Boundaries’, a recent land- photographers’ co-operative agency. based show at Cambridge Darkroom. • David Briers writes on visual arts and researches exhibitions. Living in Cardiff, Books in Brief37 Colin Osmancomments on his selection he writes for a number of national arts of books recently published. magazines and recently contributed to the Talkback 38 Our regular forum for ideas, opinions and Photographers’ Gallery ‘Photography as points of view. This monthGerry Performance' catalogue. Badger attacks the intellectual fascism • Nigel Warburton is working towards a he sees rotting photography’s PhD at Darwin College, Cambridge. His foundations. subject is philosophy while photography Front Cover:Alastair Haines, from his forms his particular interest. ‘Send Them To School . . .’ series. % Brian Human is ‘Creative Camera’s’ East Anglian correspondent and an active ISSN: 0011-0876 participant in photographic affairs in the Published in 1986 by CC Publishing with region. assistance from the Arts Council. ©CC • Gerry Badger is a photographer, writer Publishing, 1986. Typeset by RP and architect. His writings on Typesetters, Unit 13, 21 Wren Street, photography have been published in London WC1 and printed by Jackson Britain and America. Wilson Limited, Leeds. Tony O’Shea

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Gene Lambert Contributors to this issue Frontlines, headlines and comment. mLuke Gibbons is a Lecturer in News 5 Communications at the National Institute Talkback 9 Is the language of photo-criticism marked for Higher Education, Dublin, and has by deception, doubletalk and distortion? published work on the representation of Brian McAveraargues that it is. Ireland in film, television and photography, Foreground 10 By way of introducing this all Irish issue, eBrian McAvera is an arts journalist for Luke Gibbonsconsiders Ireland’s social the ‘Irish News’, critic and writer. His work landscape as pictured from within and has been widely published in magazines and without. newspapers including ‘Art Monthly’, and Portfolio 12 Tony O’Shea— street photographs in ‘Art Line’ where he is Associate Editor. the new tradition. • Tony O’Shea is a freelance photographer 18 Amelia Stein — hand-coloured and based in Dublin.Colm Toibin who writes assembled portraits. about him is Features Editor of ‘In Dublin’ 20 Kevin O’Farrell— extracts from a magazine. documentary on Bathing Places. • Amelia Stein was born in Ireland in 1958. She began photographing in 1971, working 22Tony Murray— new colour and the urban scene. in the theatre. • Kevin O’Farrell studied photography at 24Rod Tuach— images from Spain and Newport with David Hurn and John Portugal by a major Irish independent. Charity. Since 1980 he has freelanced for 28Gene Lambert— portraits of disability magazines and newspapers while continuing from a painter turned photographer. with his own projects. Review 33‘Ireland: a Week in the Life of a Nation’ • Tony Murray, born in 1955, studied fails to find affection fromRob Powell, painting at the National College of Art & ‘Staging the Self’ at London’s National Design in Dublin. In 1978 he was the first Portrait Gallery surprisesTom Evans,a recipient of an Irish Arts Council Bursary recently published monograph on for photography. Hoyningen-Huene pleasesMartin 9Rod Tuach was bom in 1945 and has Harrisonand Willy Doherty’s work, recently seen in Derry Brianby exhibited in Ireland, England, USA and McAvera asks and answers questions on Holland. Tuach’s works form part of ‘New a divided society. West European Photographers’, an exhibition organised by Canon Gallery, Amsterdam now touring Czechoslovakia and Russia. mGene Lambert began his professional career as a painter, graduating from the NCAD in 1973j. He began photographing after a serious a'ccident in 1981. In 1985 the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin exhibited the portraits we publish and produced an extensive catalogue ‘Work from a Dark Room’. • Tom Evans, photographer, teacher and writer is a regular contributor to Creative Camera. One of his photographs was published in CC 6/1986. • Martin Harrison is a writer and exhibitions organiser specialising in fashion photography. • Rob Powell, Director of Stills Gallery, Edinburgh is also a much published writer and photographic critic. Front Cover:Tony O’Shea