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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 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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Document

Coming & Going - Travellers in London - Barry L...

Letter from British Rail granting photographic permission
advertising, billboards, bowler hat, branch closures, british rail
advertising, billboards, bowler hat, branch closures, british rail, bus queue, charing cross station, city businessmen, city life, clapham junction, cleaners, commuters, commuting, congestion, crowds, delays, escalator, evening news, fluffer, heathrow airport, holborn tube, linesmen, liverpool street station, london bridge, museum of london, news, newspapers, oxford street, passengers, routemaster bus, rush hour, shoppers, sikhs, smoking carriage, streets, suburbs, trafalgar square, traffic, traffic jams, train station, trains, transport system, travel, tubes, underground, victoria station, waiting room, waterloo station
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Film

Don't Think So - Wilf Thust

This film was produced with young people at the Four Corners' Cinema Workshop
east london, experimental, filmmaking, project, role play
east london, experimental, filmmaking, project, role play
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Ephemera

El Salvador

Poster for a benefit showing for Salvadorean Film Institute (10 Dec)
el salvador, film, screenings
el salvador, film, screenings
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Ephemera

Exhibition - Simon Marsden

Poster for Simon Marsden's exhibition. Most of the images were made using infrared film.
infrared photography, simon marsden
infrared photography, simon marsden
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