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173:, they provided passing pedestrians with the opportunity to make self-portraits against a white backdrop using an extension shutter release with the assistance of a photographer. Their landmark effort was to counter the bad press that the inner-city neighbourhood was receiving, and the stereotyping and blaming of its residents for its conditions, by showing the diverse faces of its population. The result was shown in Birmingham and elsewhere. 597:] is then to have been part of the constitution of the very subjectness of photography as an academic discipline. This is true of the work of the photographers it foregrounded, the models of engaged photographic practices it reported upon, the theorists it published and, perhaps more significantly, its own model of attempting to hold theory and practice together. 564:
turn, at a period when the decoding of photographs was contested, and it heralded new cultural forms of contemporary networked and commodified digital culture. In 1978 the number of colleges in the UK offering photography as a degree subject was a mere handful, and during the magazine's lifetime such
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As an editorial group, we are not committed to any one theory about photography, and we will not be championing any one way of making pictures. We believe that our strength lies in this very eclecticism, and make no apology that in this issue, and in the future, we shall be examining issues from a
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and their imagery appeared alongside writing by academics and community activists. The quarterly format permitted the collation of material into themed editions. It was one of a number of niche British magazines dedicated to critical discussions of photography and related media in the 1980s, that
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The tenth edition of the magazine reflected on recent histories of feminism in documentary photography in Britain. Published in 1983, four years after the first edition, the issue's content was themed 'Photography, peace and protest', with a central photo essay titled "Greenham Common".
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By including imagery of, and writing around, political and social developments, the magazine sought to provide understanding of ways in which photographic practice was engaged in ideological processes that Bishton articulated as a crisis of the
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and Sonali Fernando that pursue multiple issues of identity and the black photographic image, skin colour, diaspora, blackness as a cultural icon, racial confrontation and sexuality.
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about the work of the photograph. John Taylor as an editor and writer advanced theorisation of photography through publishing writings by Stuart Hall, John Tagg and
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featured knowledgeable and fiercely contested debates on the history, theory, politics and practice of photography and offered source material for educators.
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context, ended what Arts Council's Photography Officer, Barry Lane, had been developing and had understood as British independent photography.
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co-edited the Spectrum Women's Photography Festival exhibition catalogue, it was published as a special supplement to issue 30.
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promoted the struggle for British Black and Asian social justice as reflected in photographic and media representations.
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Connell, K. (2012-05-01). "Photographing handsworth: Photography, meaning and identity in a British inner city".
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Contributing photographers came from a new breed of documentary workers and included Paul Hill, Angela Kelly,
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form "inscribed into the currencies of social and cultural discourse". Bishton regarded the key functions of
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had an impact that drew international readers; from an initial print run of 500 in 1979, to 5,000 in 1992.
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Editor Derek Bishton established "Ten.8 Touring", an exhibition touring project in 1987 and when in 1989,
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The writing of that issue is framed with images by David Lewis, Vanley Burke, and Franklyn Rodgers,
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was in the left-wing intellectual tradition, entrenched in the year it was founded at the end of
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institutions proliferated, and most had texts from the publication in their course materials.
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A collective was formed that included Roy Peters, then studying photography at Birmingham's
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Remediating transcultural memory : documentary filmmaking as archival intervention
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In the context of its physical location amongst the migrant communities of Birmingham,
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s cessation was the result of a loss of income. Reorganisation at funding body the
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The trio had previously undertaken community-based work together, creating the
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These "issues" included the following, which were covered in themed editions:
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was a British photography magazine founded in 1979 and published quarterly in
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Stephens, Chris; Tate Britain (Gallery); Yale Center for British Art (2008),
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Photography degree zero : reflections on Roland Barthes's Camera lucida
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Dewdney, Andrew (2011). "That was Then, This is Now: The Legacy of Ten:8".
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Remaking Birmingham : the visual culture of urban regeneration
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was represented at the Houston FotoFest and at Recontres Au Noir,
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lived and photographed. During the autumn of 1979, prior to the
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Index

Birmingham
ISSN
0142-9663
Birmingham
echoic
Birmingham
Derek Bishton
Birmingham Arts Lab
Handsworth
Vanley Burke
1981 riots
Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Stourbridge College
Wolverhampton Polytechnic
Bournville College of Art
Rhonda Wilson
Roshini Kempadoo
MBE
Brian Griffin
Abbas
Susan Meiselas
Vanley Burke
Chris Steele-Perkins
Screen Education
Camerawork
Creative Camera
James Callaghan
Labour
Winter of Discontent
Margaret Thatcher

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