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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 29

Issue 29: Images of the Left, McClaren on Cable, Photomontage, Stuart Hall, Video
1981, advertising, album covers, alternative, atrocity
1981, advertising, album covers, alternative, atrocity, band, beirut, beta, branding, broadcast, cable, campaign, colin roach, committing photography, community activism, community arts, community practice, conflict, constraints, darkroom, documentary, documentary realism, east london media forum, economic recession, edinburgh television festival, entertainment, exit photography group, factory records, fashion, female representation, film, format, funding, genocide, graphic design, ideology, inner cities, interview, interviews, invasion, isaac julien, israel, labour, labour party, lebanon, left, london video arts, malcolm mclauren, milton keynes, montage, mtv, music, nam june paik, network, new media, new order, photographing television, photojournalism, picture agency, political photograph, pop, popular, poverty, press, promotion, record industry, record sleeve, rentasnap, rio cinema, riots, self-portrait, simulation, slide, socialism, socialist realism, stuart hall, studio, style, survival programmes, taking tv pictures, tape/slide, television, the photo co-op, vhs, video, video art, video distribution, video exhibition, war, women’s photography, working class, youth vote, zionism
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 05

Issue 5: Barry Lane Bill Gaskins Bert Hardy and Tom Hopkinson Dave Hoffman Frank Webster Terry De...
'quality of life', alternative technology, amber associates, arts council, arts council photography committee
'quality of life', alternative technology, amber associates, arts council, arts council photography committee, barry kay, basement photography project, bbc, cable street, camerawork printing costs, children's photography, community arts, daily mail, daily mirror, developing, feminity, funding applications, hmpw, homosexuality, i.r.a, korean war, maire drumm, natural light, patronage, photojournalism, picture post, processing, semiotics, side gallery and cinema, social realism, strikes, tabloids, television news, text and image, thames television, the box room gallery, the sun, tower hamlets arts project, transgender, transvestite, vanessa redgrave, visual language, whitechapel art gallery, wwii, zone system
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 19

Issue 19: State of the Nation - E.P.Thompson, Photomontages by Peter Kennard, Edith Tudor-Hart - ...
1930s, anthropology, apartheid, arts & action, arts council
1930s, anthropology, apartheid, arts & action, arts council, blair peach, boycott, civil liberty, colonialism, community arts, context, cruise missile, cultural imperialism, dictatorship, geographical magazine, haywain, hayward gallery, historical interpretation, history, human rights, interpretation, jo spence, lilliput, margaret thatcher, marxist, meaning, mechanical reproduction, namibia, nato, observers of man, perspective, photography history, photomontage, police, police brutality, policie enquiry, political, representation, representation of women, rhondda valley, social role of women, stamp, surveillance, three perspectives on photography, women, women workers, workers' camera club, workers' film and photo league, working class wives, working in the 30's
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Document

A Kind of Life: A home in Norway for mentally r...

Letter to Nicky Hughes from Mersyside Visual Communcations Unit requesting loan of A Kind Of Life...
institution, learning difficulties, northern norway, patients
institution, learning difficulties, northern norway, patients
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 12

Issue 12: Portraits
'public' vs. 'private' photography, 19th century photography, album photography, amateur, archetypes
'public' vs. 'private' photography, 19th century photography, album photography, amateur, archetypes, art photography, cabinet photo, calotypes, carte-de-visite, celebrity, commodification of sex, commodity, daguerrotype, david bowie, democratisation of photography, documentary, dolls, drug culture, early commercial photography, early studio portrait photography, environmental portraits, experiences of sitters, fame, families, family albums, fashion photography, glamour, holiday photos, hollywood, homelessness, housing, individuality, Memory, mothers, national campaign for the homeless, objectification, paparazzi, photo-portrait, pictorialism, pin-up, pop art, pornography, portrait, portrait photography, portrait photography vs paintings, portraits of musicians, portraiture, poverty, prostitutes, prostitution, publicity, punk, record industry, rembrandt, second sight, self-portrait, shelter, snapshots, star system, stereograph, storyville portraits, studio portrait photography, subculture, the nude, weegee, women photographers
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 04

Issue 4: Quality of Life Children Photographed Black Stereotyping
'children photographed', a.i.r., alternative representation, apartheid, architecture photography
'children photographed', a.i.r., alternative representation, apartheid, architecture photography, bantu film experiment, black nationalism, black stereotypes, box room gallery, capitalism, children's rights workshop, colonial film unit, colonialism, creative camera, drum magazine, exhibitions, gender roles, ifriqiyah film collective, ikon, imperialism, jean mohr, light gallery, male gaze, male nudes, mass entertainment, photojournalism, picture post magazine, pin-up, playgirl magazine, pornography, quality of life', social realism, space, spare rib magazine, stereotyping of children, students, usa, viva magazine, voyeurism, women's magazines
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 16

Issue 16: Manchester Studies Archive, Nicaragua in the News, Japanese Photography Reviewed, Camer...
anti-realism, archives, camera obscura, camerawork, camerawork readers' meeting
anti-realism, archives, camera obscura, camerawork, camerawork readers' meeting, canon, capitalism, civil war, community, community photography, diagram, do it yerself, eikoh hosoe, family collection, fsln, history, horror, industry, instructions, japanese photography today and its origins, lewisham, managua, manchester studies archive rescue, marxism, news photography, nicaragua dictatorship and revolution, oral history, photography agencies, photography analysis, photography theory, photojournalism, phototography practice, political, race today, realism, sandinista, self-image, socialism, somoza, visual representation
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 21

Issue 21: Representing the Disabled, Gaining Momentum - Eight Women Photograph Women, Photography...
access, accessibility, action, art, arts council of great britain
access, accessibility, action, art, arts council of great britain, bethnal green hospital, birth, bootle arts and action, care, community, copyright, copyright act, cuts, disability, disabled, east london health project, family, female, feminist, festival, funding, gaining momentum, greater london arts association, handicapped, health, home, infringement, intervention, license, magubane’s south africa, merseyside arts association, motherhood, mothers, national conference of socialist photography, outsiders, photojournalism, photomontage, plagiarism, political practice, politics, representation, rights, social documentary, soweto, stereotypes, text and image, trade council, trade union, well-being, wheelchair, wives, women’s movement
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Magazine

Camerawork Magazine - Issue 31

Issue 31:Food: Images and Politics
1984, a few hotheads, advertising, agriculture, archive
1984, a few hotheads, advertising, agriculture, archive, black audio film collective, body image, campaign, coal, colonial legacy, colonialism, colonies, community, consumption, control, desire, distribution, domination, easington, empire, ethnic, factory, farming, federation of community photography, fleet street, food, french, fruit preservers, guilt, gwent collage of higher education, history, import, indian, industrial dispute, industry, international women’s day, lipton, meat, middlesex, mining, naughty but nice, newport museum and art gallery, newport survey, orwell, packaging, photography course, photomontage, pleasure, political struggle, postcards, posters, preserves, production, racism, rural life, sexual violence, sexuality, signs of empire and images of nationality, slaughterhouse, socialist, sprouts, street market, strike, students, sugar, supermarket, tea, the commodities project, tondu photo workshop, tradition, vegetarian, weight, west midlands arts, women, women workers, working class, workshop, world
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