CREATIVE CAMERA FEBRUARY/MARCH 1993

4 NEWS/LISTINGSIncluding an exclusive interview with the Arts Council’s new Director of Visual Arts

1 3 LETTERRoot Cartwright replies to Janice Hart

14 RIVER CROSSINGSHelen Sloan of Camerawork introduces this special issue

16 PUBLIC ARTWho benefits from public art? Anna Douglas examines the questions raised when artists venture out-of-doors

21 NICK STEWARTPerformance artist, Nick Stewart, talks to Helen Sloan about communities, audiences and Jean-Michel Jarre

24 ZERO DEGREESPeter Fink describes the genesis of a new light display across the Greenwich meridian

26 THE VIRTUAL GALLERYNew media is changing public art. Susan Collins and Simon Schofield explore the implications

32 OLD MONUMENTS, NEW SITESEd Baxter demands a radical approach to urban art

35 RIVER CROSSINGS - SOURCESOrganisations, events and publications

36 RIVER CROSSINGS - GUIDEWho is exhibiting. Where to go. What to see

38 BOOKS IN BRIEF40 JUDITH COWANSusan Butler discusses the role of photography in the work of a young British sculptor

44 DIARYBy David Brittain

45 REVIEWSEd van der Elsken/Catherine Yass/Oliver Whitehead/ Latin America/Shifting Borders/Sally Mann/Andreas Gursky

Creative Camera

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Editor: David Brittain

Editorial Assistant: Beverley Friedmann

Design Consultant: Pavel Buchler

Design: Niall Allsop

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ISSN 0011 0876

Published by CC Publishing in association

with Comerhouse © CC Publishing Ltd,

individual authors and image-makers.

Produced by Comerhouse Production and

printed by Jackson Wilson, Leeds.

Creative Camera is committed to equal

opportunities and welcomes contributions

from all who share our belief in the vitality

of the art of photography.

Front Cover:

Standing figure on

Buoy Stephen

Balkenhol

(courtesy Artangel)

Left: Picture by

Lesley Davies

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2 LEWIS BALTZ 6 JOZEF LEGRAND8 NEWSTributes to the late Aaron Scharf

9 LISTINGS 1 5 FROM PHOTOGRAPH TO IMAGE Introduction by David Brittain and Jim Harold

1 7 HELEN SEAR 19 ZARINA BHIMJI 20 ROGER PALMER 22 WILLIAM KLEIN 24 CROWNED WITH THORNS Val Williams on Creative Camera and the sixties

32 ANIA BIEN 34 THE WORD Spilt ink m the battle over photography's identity

42 DUANE MICHALS 44 KNUT MARON 46 STUART BRISLEY 48 SUSAN BRIND 50 THE DOUBLE-PAGE SPREAD Pavel Biichler examines the relationship between image and magazine

52 RAINER USSELMANN 54 PHOTOGRAPHY &

DIGITAL IMAGING The uncertain status of photography in the digital era

60 SOPHIE RISTELHUEBER 62 HENRY BOND 64 PAVEL BUCHLER 66 MICHAL ROVNER 68 ZANG TUMB TUUM The photographer Craigie 1 lorsfield on the futility of escaping into the future

70 JOHN STEZAKER 72 THE IMAGE AND THE CROWD Words by novelist Don Delillo

75 PAUL HILL 77 REVIEWS Wasteland/Reconfigured Eye/Bruce Gilden

80 COMPETITION Now the fun. Test your powers and win books

81 SUSAN TRANGMAR 83 BIOGRAPHIES

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lull tors: David Brittain and Jim Harold

Special thanks to Anna Fox

Editorial Assistant: Beverley Friedmann

Design Consultant: Pavel Biichler

Design: Niall Allsop

Founder Publisher 1968-1986: Colin Osman

ISSN 0011 0876

Published by CC Publishing in association

witli Corncrhouse © CC Publishing Ltd,

individual authors and image-makers.

Produced by Cornerhousc Production and

printed by Jackson Wilson, Leeds.

Creative Camera is committed to equal

opportunities and welcomes contributions

from all who share our belief in the vitality

of the art of photography.

Front Cover:

Design by

David Brittain and

Jim Harold

Back page: Before

the Ec.ipse, Paris

1912 by Eugene

Atget

4 NEWS/LISTINGS12 LETTERS13 PUBLIC & PRIVATEIntroduced by David Brittain

14 LAURA MCPHEEAmbivalent and provocative images of an American family

18 MONITORS KAREN ESLEAKaren Eslea graduated from Nottingham Polytechnic in 1992 and is currently involved in a project exploring the incorporation of technology in society

20 TALKBACKPaul Caplan puts documentary in the dock

21 CC DIARYShock! Horror! Party pictures

22 MARTIN PARR INTERVIEWED 26 JACK PIERSONPierson was born in 1960 in Massachusetts. He has exhibited since 1990 and is represented by Luhring Augustine, New York and Aurel Scheibler, Cologne

28 NAN GOLDINPhotographs from the Other Side

30 THE FAMILYMichael Collins in the ethical minefield of picture editing

34 AT HOME WITH THE COLLECTIONWith Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio

38 BOOKS IN BRIEFNew titles reviewed

40 FROM THE ARCHIVEWe reprint Robert Frank’s last letter from New York

41 JEFFREY SILVERTHORNEWork by a photographer who revels in transgression

44 REVIEWSI-D in Edinburgh/Jochen Gerz/Fractal Landscapes Paul Graham/Synapse/Melanie Counsel/Current Account

Creative Camera

Sadler’s Wells

Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN

071 713 0671

Editor: David Brittain

Editorial Assistant: Beverley Friedmann

Design Consultant: Pavel Buchler

Design: Niall Allsop

Founder Publisher 1968-1986: Colin Osman

ISSN 0011 0876

Published by CC Publishing in association

with Cornerhouse © CC Publishing Ltd,

individual authors and image-makers.

Produced by Cornerhouse Production and

printed by Jackson Wilson, Leeds.

Creative Camera is committed to equal

opportunities and welcomes contributions

from all who share our belief in the vitality

of the art of photography.

Front Cover:

Detail from Casa di

tolleranza in via

del Leonetto, Rome,

1958 from

Paparazzi

Photography

1953-1954

(Alinari)

4 NEWS/LISTINGS11 TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUMSimon Dickason introduces this issue

14 CC DIARYBy David Brittain

15 1968-1993Walter Gropius remembers the Bauhuas. From the CC archives

16 VINCENT STOKESImages from his series, Castaways

18 LA FRONTERAPhotographs by Graciela Iturbide, poetry by Rubin Martinez

22 METROPOLIS David Brittain examines Modernism’s flirtations with the big city

26 RYUJI MIYAMOTO Miyamoto photographs Hong Kong’s nineteenth-

century walled city, Kowloon, prior to being demolished

32 SURVEILLANCE CITY Phil Carney argues that the panopticon has escaped from the punishment block into the city streets

36 SEAN HILLEN Photomontages concerning Ireland and England

38 KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO Jean-Christophe Royoux interviews an artist whose survival ma chines combine art with politics 42 BOOKS IN BRIEFNew titles include Salgado’s opus

44 REVIEWSVideo Positive/Public and Private/Garry Miller and Susan Derges/Southern Crossings/F.Stop/Karen Knorr

Front Cover:

Detail from a

photomontage by

Sean Hillen

Left: Picture by

Gerhardt

Stromberg.

Sponsored by

Polaroid (UK)

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4 NEWS/LISTINGS10 BILL VIOLAImage from his installation, Arc of Ascent

1 1 WATER IMAGES David Brittain introduces this issue

12 LINDA TROELLER Water, culture, health, environment and politics

20 JEAN-BAPTIST CARHAIX A French photojournalist at Lourdes

24 MAX PAM Portraits by an Australian photographer living in Britain

26 BRIAN JENKINS Jenkins’ installation, Out of Depth

28 KEVIN MACLEAN New image/text work from the show Acqua Vitae

32 REVISITING PICTURE POSTWhat went wrong with Reportage?

33 FROM OUR ARCHIVESEsther Samra on the institutionalisation of photography

34 PETER GOINPolemical landscapes about water in the American West

36 BOOKS IN BRIEFLatest titles reviewed

38 HONOR LASSALLEImages from the series, Being Borne

39 SUZANNE LACYMontages from the series, The Anatony Lesson

40 TALKBACKWhen public funders treat photography like visual art

41 CC DIARYBy David Brittain

43 REVIEWSBill Brandt/Anna Fox & Val Williams/Michael McCaughan/Vanley Burke/Bernard Oglesby/Hors- Champs/Richard Misrach/Printemps de la Photo

Front Cover:

by Adam Fuss

Left: Picture by

David Brittain

LUCKY DIP

Pavel Buchler and David Bellingham have collaborated on a oneoff project for CC.200 copies of this edition contain original drawings made at random on the paper used in the production of CC325

4 NEWS/LISTINGS 10 THE IRRESISTIBLE RISE OF AVEDON

The scandal attending Avedon’s Whitney retrospective

13 LETTERS15 REDRAWING THE MAPGuest selectors introduce their choice of photographers

18 MALIN STARRETT 20 AITHNE GRAYSON 23 NAOMI SALAMAN 24 JOHN DUNCAN 26 ARTIST'S PAGE: PETER FRASER 28 LINDA NEILSON 29 AKI YAMAMOTO 30 TONY COREY 31 HAYDN DENMAN 32 DAVID BELLINGHAM 34 ANNE ELLIOT 35 ADDELA KHAN 36 CATH PEARSON 37 CONTRIBUTORS' BIOGRAPHIES 38 CC DIARY David Hevey is the man in the seat

40 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Guest reviewers select their favourites

42 REVIEWS Intimate Lives/The Waking Dream/Gunther Forg/ German Photography in New York/Luis Gonzalez Palma/Peter Fraser/Cindy Bernard

Front Cover:

Untitled, 1991 by

Paulina Olsson

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