Main entry:

Stacey, Noni, author.

Title & Author:

Photography of protest and community : the radical collectives of the 1970s / Noni Stacey.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries Publishers, 2020.
©2020

Description:

208 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-201) and index.
Foreword / Wendy Ewald -- Photography, collectives and the 1970s -- From the Half Moon Gallery to Camerawork -- Photography, protest and urban crisis: on Problem in the city and Exit Photography Group -- The Hackney Flashers Collective: 'the personal is political' -- North Paddington Community Darkroom and Blackfriars Photography Project: bringing community into the darkroom -- Camerawork, schism and legacy.

Summary:

During the 1970s, London-based photographers joined together to form collectives which engaged with local and international political protest in cities across the UK. This book is a survey of the radical community photography that these collectives produced. The photographers derived inspiration from counterculture while finding new ways to produce, publish and exhibit their work. They wanted to do things in their own way, to create their own magazines and exhibition networks, and to take their politicised photographic and textual commentary on the re-imagination of British cities in the post-war period into community centres, laundrettes, Working Men's Clubs, polytechnics, nurseries - anywhere that would have them. The laminated panel exhibitions were sufficiently robust, when packed into a laundry box, to withstand circulation round the country on British Rail's Red Star parcel network. Through archival research, interviews and newly discovered photographic and ephemeral material, this tells the story of the Hackney Flashers Collective, Exit Photography Group, Half Moon Photography Workshop, producers of Camerawork magazine, and the community darkrooms, North Paddington Community Darkroom and Blackfriars Photography Project. It reveals how they created a 'history from below', positioning themselves outside of established mainstream media, and aiming to make the invisible visible by bringing the disenfranchised and marginalised into the political debate.

ISBN:

1848224095 hardback
9781848224094 hardback

Subject:

Documentary photography Great Britain History 20th century.
Photography, Artistic.
Protest movements History 20th century.
Nineteen seventies Pictorial works.
Photographie documentaire Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie artistique.
Contestation Histoire 20e siècle.
Années soixante-dix (Vingtième siècle) Ouvrages illustrés.
art photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY / General.
Photography.
Documentary photography
Nineteen seventies
Protest movements
Great Britain History 20th century Pictorial works.
Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Ewald, Wendy, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 315277
Call No.: TR820.5 .S73 2020
Copy: 1
Status: Available