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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 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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Magazine

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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Magazine

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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Magazine

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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Magazine

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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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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Magazine

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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Film clip

Cinema in East London

This is a tape/slide programme made by Wilf Thust, Ron Peck, Joanna Davis, Mary Pat Leece and Pau...
architecture, cinemas, east end, films, history
architecture, cinemas, east end, films, history, watching films
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Film clip

The Tigers Milk: Women of Nicaragua - Fiona Mac...

Nicaraguan women describe details of their daily lives under the Somoza regime in this instructiv...
history, latin america, nicaragua, struggle, us imperialism
history, latin america, nicaragua, struggle, us imperialism, women, women's roles
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