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All; keyword:Merseyside Visual Communications Unit
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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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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 32

Issue 32: Science and Technology
19th c, advertisement, american, apalachia, arts council of great britain
19th c, advertisement, american, apalachia, arts council of great britain, body, brunel, canadian, classroom, computer, conference, cultures, discipline, documentary, education, erotic, fantasies, female, foucault, gender roles, glamour, great western railway, health, history, illumination, indians, industrialisation, isolation, jo spence, kingdom, knowledge, light, maxism, model, native, nineteenth century, nude, objectivity, panopticon, photographers in education, polysnappers, post-modernism, power, press, private, progress, public, punishment, rationality, records, review of work 1950 – 85, rhetoric, role reversal, science, scientific frameworks, sculpture, semiotics, sexual identity, sexuality, steamship, stereotype, stories, surveillance, technology, television mythologies, truth, typist, underprivileged, victorian, visual display unit, wellbeing, women, word processing
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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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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 30

Issue 30: Black Culture, Pictures of women, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Pop Videos, Images of War
act of looking, advertising, american, anthropology, appropriation
act of looking, advertising, american, anthropology, appropriation, archive, art in the age of the mass media, arts and action, auca, berlin, black, body, cable, cable development, captions, channel 4, civil war, collection, community, conflict, culture, darkroom, david hockney, desire, discourse, diy, drawing, el salvadorian film institute, elizabeth elliot, ethnography, exhibition, exhibition texts, fact, falklands, feminist, film, hayward gallery, heroism, hierarchy, history, hockney at the hayward, imperial war museum, independent film, independent video, indians, institute of contemporary art, loli galvar, love, mapplethorpe at the ica, media, mtv, music video, narrative, national identity, native, painting, patriarchy, photography, photomontage, pictures of women, pleasure principle, political, postcard, precarious masculinity, printing, promo video, promotion, promotion protecting photographs, record industry, record sales, reggae, renovation, representation, restoration, rising red star advertising agency, seminar, sexuality, sound systems, south hill park arts centre, stereotypes, still image, story, sudhost express, technology, television, television industry, text panels, the eleventh hour, the people will win, the savage my kinsman, time, video, visual perception, war, war photography, women, writing for exhibitions
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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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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 26

Issue 26: Models of Vision/New Technologies
afterimage, appropriation, avant-garde, bias, bourgeoisie
afterimage, appropriation, avant-garde, bias, bourgeoisie, broadcast, capitalism, channel 4, circulation, colonialism, commodity, computer, constructed, consumption, control, coverage, culture, digital, disc, distribution, documentary, enlightenment, feminism, future, grand tour, graphics, history, identity, ideology, image, knowledge, looking, mafia, manipulation, maps, marx, mass consumption, mavica, mavigraph, meaning, media, narratives, nazis, new objectivity, new technology, nicaragua, ownership, perspective, philosophy, photography and capitalism, pirate radio, positivism, press, process, production, psychoanalysis, reading, reality, referent, representation, reproduction, revolution, science fiction, seeing, signification, signs, situationist, social documentary, spectacle, surrealism, system, technology, television, text, time, truth, video, vision, warfare, women
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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 25

Issue 25: Fragmentation, Sexuality and Images, Homo Erotica, Black Culture, German Montage
african women, afro caribbean, aiz photojournal, arthur tress, black culture
african women, afro caribbean, aiz photojournal, arthur tress, black culture, black male, buchi emecherta, camera lucida, capitalism, china, codes, design, erotica, errol francis, ethnicity, feminist, feminist erotica, fetishism, fragmentation, gay, german montage, germany, herman leupold, homo erotica, homosexuality, image, jan brown, kobena mercer, kreuzberg, latin america, leninist, libya, male, marxist, marxist-leninist, mohammed al gadafy, nazi, new york, normalisation, obsession, our own freedom, pathologisation of black culture, perfect body, policing, pornography, positive image, power, race relations, representation, resistance, robert mapplethorpe, roland barthes, sexual violence, sexualised, sexuality, slavery, socialised, squatting, surplus knowledge, the arbeiter-illustrierte-zeitung, third effect, third reich, tony benn, wavaw, werner al orlowsky, women, women against violence against women, workers illustrated newspaper
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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 24

Issue 24: Photography and Graphic Design
1981, advertising, britain, charity, collage
1981, advertising, britain, charity, collage, collective, colonisation, control, cultural, elderly, empire, erotica, exploitation, feminist, feminist design, global issues, graphic design, hot pink heart graphics, identity, ideology, imperialism, india, interpretation, isolation, labour, liberation, magazine, mass production, Memory, montage, objectification, patriarchy, photography, photoworld exhibition, politics, pornography, positive, poster, poster film collective, poverty, print, printshop, propaganda, publicity, radical, recall, reminiscing, representation, reproduction, sexual politics, socialism, socialist, socialist worker party, spare rib, stereotypes, style, temporary hoarding, text and image, the people’s march for jobs, theory, trade unions, visual, women, women against violence against women, workers, workshop
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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 23

Issue 23: Reporting Back on Ireland
1968, anti-imperialist, bobby sands, british, british government
1968, anti-imperialist, bobby sands, british, british government, campaign, capital, catholic, civil rights, communication, conflict, coverage, crisis, direct rule 1972, distribution, economy, evidence, feminist struggles, funeral, history, housing, housing authorities, housing control, human rights, hunger strikes, imperialist, industrial decline, industry, intelligence, interview, investment, ira, ireland, irish, irish parliament, labour, liberation, loyalism, manipulation, manufacture, media, monopoly, nationalism, nationalist movement, news, northern ireland, northern ireland women’s rights group, northern irish housing executive, operation, partition, political parties, political status, pow, prisoner of war, prisoners, propaganda, property, protestant, provos, public sector, reform, report, reporting, repression, republicanism, resistance, segregation, sinn fein, sis, socialist women’s group, solidarity movement, special issue, struggle, television, terrorism, trade union, tv, unemployment, war, women, women and nationalism, women and republicanism, women’s organisations, working class, youth against oppression
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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 22

Issue 22: Women and Documentary Photography in Northern Ireland
airport, airport opposition league, archives, arrest, arts and action project
airport, airport opposition league, archives, arrest, arts and action project, arts council, black organisation, british army, censorship, children, civil rights, civil war, conflict, confrontation, control, danish women’s photographic archive, demonstration, deptford, displacement, documentary photography, el salvador, eyeopeners, farmers, fire, government, history, image, language, learning, liberation, media, murder, narita, northern ireland, occupation, opposition, photography working party, photojournalism, pinhole, police, policing photography, power, power and photography, press, press freedom, protest, racism, representation, repression, resistance, sanrizuka airport, sato, schools, state control, struggle, teachers, teaching, teenagers, text, trade union, using photography, war, women, women’s movement, words, workshop, young people
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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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Camerawork Magazine - Issue 20

Issue 20: Zimbabwe - Managing History, Immigrant Women, Cover Women, Political Photomontage: Hear...
advertising, art and commerce, british photography, camerawork, chimurenga
advertising, art and commerce, british photography, camerawork, chimurenga, colonialism, community, cosmopolitan, economy, editorial, exhibition reviews, exploitation, feminism, gender stereotypes, german, hegemony, immigrant, left, magazine, magazine covers, mashona, national conference of socialist photography, new photography, north paddington community darkroom, photobooks, photomontage, politics of representation, portrait, portraiture, representation, representation of women, rhodes, rhodesia, socialism, spare rib, staeckbrief, stalinist, turkish, women, women and home, women's own, zimbabawe
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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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