Camerawork (magazine)
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| Editor | Jo Spence |
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| Editor | Terry Dennett |
| Frequency | bi-monthly |
| Format | A2>A4 folding broadsheet |
| Publisher | Half Moon Photography Workshop |
| Founded | 1976 |
| Final issue Number | no. 32, summer 1985 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0308-1672 |
| OCLC | 480398473 |
Camerawork (1976–1985) was a British bi-monthly photography magazine promoting humanist, socialist and activist photography.[1] It was based in London.[2]
Half Moon Photography Workshop, a collective of photographers, initiated community photography education, Half Moon Gallery and publishing activities in the East End in the early 1970s,[3] and out of this grew the magazine Camerawork, from which the collective then took its name, established in 1976 by Jo Spence with the socialist historian of photography Terry Dennett.[4]
They were joined on the cooperative editorial team for the first edition (February 1976), themed 'The Politics of Photography', by Tony Bock, Roger Eaton, Mike Goldwater, Janet Goldberg, Marilyn Noad, Tom Picton, George Solomonides, and Paul Trevor, with writings by Terry Dennett, Tom Picton, Jo Spence, and Paul Trevor and pictures by Nick Hedges, Ron McCormick, Larry Herman, Chris Searle, Exit, Helmut Newton, and Claire Schwob.[5] Subsequent editions were also themed, with often controversial topics.
The group moved to a new gallery also named Camerawork, on Roman Road in 1977 – a space now used by arts charity Four Corners.