Title & Author:

Creative camera : thirty years of writing / edited by David Brittain.

Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1999.

Description:

vii, 312 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

The critical image

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Mirror with a memory: thirty years of writing in Creative Camera / David Brittain 1 -- 1 Photography and the mass media / John Szarkowski 28 -- 2 The scandal of horror photography / Roland Barthes 32 -- 3 Letter from New York / Robert Frank 35 -- 4 Brassai: Talking about photography / Tony Ray-Jones 38 -- 5 In praise of the snapshot / Bill Jay 44 -- 6 Dr Erich Salomon 1886-1944: historian with a camera / Helmut Gernsheim 46 -- 7 Personal notes on dismantling the McCullin Exhibition at the V & A Museum / Mark Haworth-Booth 53 -- 8 Picturing the end of Empire: Cecil Beaton / David Alan Mellor 59 -- 9 The Tate Gallery and photography: Alan Bowness / Colin Osman 66 -- 10 Modern photojournalism: the first years / Tim Gidal 73 -- 11 Thinking Photography reviewed / Stevie Bezencenet 81 -- 12 Some sacred sites: Thinking Photography edited by Victor Burgin 88 -- 13 Letter: Dictators and empiricists / Victor Burgin 93 -- 14 Flash suit, flash myth: Weegee's widow, Wilma Wilcox / Murray Martin 98 -- 15 Revising femininity? / Susan Butler 108 -- 16 Current comment: Josef Koudelka / Mark Haworth-Booth 115 -- 17 From today black and white is dead / Susan Butler 121 -- 18 Deja vu: the Rephotographic Survey project / Ian Walker 127 -- 19 Past caring: An interview with Paul Graham 133 -- 20 Towards a moral pornography: Joel-Peter Witkin / Gerry Badger 136 -- 21 A mirror to yourself: Helen Chadwick / Tom Evans 145 -- 22 John Gossage's The Pond / Robert Adams 150 -- 23 Beyond Romance: Weston's landscapes / Lewis Baltz 155 -- 24 Pilgrims / John Berger 159 -- 25 Willie Doherty / Christopher Coppock 163 -- 26 William Klein / David Brittain 171 -- 27 Between media and art / Charles Hagen 176 -- 28 A book in the life of: Jo Spence on John Heartfield 182 -- 29 True confessions: Cindy Sherman / David Brittain 187 -- 30 Symbolic spaces: Karen Knorr / David Brittain 193 -- 31 A snapshot from Bohemia / Pavel Buchler 199 -- 32 Body language / Jo Spence, David Hevey 203 -- 33 Film as crime / Ed Baxter 209 -- 34 Sans-Souci: Christian Boltanski / Mark Durden, Lydia Papadimitriou 213 -- 35 Parlour made / Marina Warner 220 -- 36 Unsettling the West: Contemporary American landscape photography / Rebecca Solnit 226 -- 37 Zang Tumb Tuum / Craigie Horsfield 233 -- 38 'I'm buggered without my prejudices': Martin Parr / David Brittain 236 -- 39 The Morgue: Andres Serrano / Jim Harold 241 -- 40 Digital phantoms: Jeff Wall / Jeremy Millar 246 -- 41 Doppelganger: Wendy McMurdo / Sheila Lawson 251 -- 42 New Labour: Peter Kennard / Shirley Read 257 -- 43 Between object and image / David Green 261 -- 44 Dinos and Jake Chapmans' Zygotic Exposure / David Green, Joanna Lowry 269 -- 45 Figures in a landscape / Nicholas Bornoff 272 -- 46 Photography, video and the everyday / Joanna Lowry 278 -- 47 The big shift: Stuart Hall and Mark Sealy in conversation 284 -- 48 Defining the moment / Mark Durden 290 -- 49 Shock photos / John Taylor 296 -- 50 Obedient numbers, soft delight / Geoffrey Batchen 301.

ISBN:

071905804X
9780719058042
0719058058 (pbk.)
9780719058059 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography.
Photographie.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Fotografie.

Form/genre:

Photography, Artistic.

Added entries:

Brittain, David.
Critical image.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212172
Call No.: TR640 .C7 1999
Status: Available