I could have drank more but my cameras only film for 20 minutes in one go....so I had to keep climbing up and down and restarting them. I need a solution!
Great!!! I've got some of the 1970's yearbooks. Amazing print quality! The pages are printed by "the sheet fed gravure process" Great essays and photography that still looks up to date.
Just a few of the more recognisable names! Robert Frank, HCB, Peter Turner, Chris Killip, Les Krims, Homer Sykes, Eugene Atget ++in 1975 book. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lewis Hine, John Blakemore, Lisette Model, Ansel Adams, Marketa Luscacova +++ 1976. Eikoh Hosoe, Lee Freidlander, Sally Mann, Joan Fontcuberta +++ 1978. John Benton Harris, Moholy Nagy, Duane Michals, Martin Parr, Fay Godwin, Albert Ranger Patsch, +++ in the Collect 5 as they named the 1979 book. I'm missing the '77 one! I got the set of 4 for about £20 in the early eighties from the Coo Press bookshop. @@PicturesOnMyMind
You're a lucky man to have found so many issues of Creative Camera - I lost all mine during a house move years ago. Not sure why you're surprised at the quality of the images (not the repro as Creative Camera was never printed well!) - given the brilliant photographers around at that time. There was an awful lot of rubbish in some issues - not a great fan of endless badly composed B&Ws of banal subjects. Creative Camera was always regarded as the "arty" magazine at the time to distinguish itself from AP, etc. If I remember there should be some issues that record bits of the UK that have long disappeared at the hands of the planners and developers - so they do form a bit of a historic record. The quality of the printing always let the magazine down - later attempts to launch art photography magazines certainly improved on that aspect. Nice to see the Olympus ad with Daley Thompson and Bathe it Daily, as we called him at the time - still one of my favourite and most influential photographers of British photography IMHO.
Yeah, I've got another pile I didn't even manage to get through! And I forgot I pulled out some of the favourite issues four years ago that I DIDNT even look at it the video! Ha! Totally forgot I did that. I loved the layout in some of them. Those massive Killip spreads! 😍
The Czech issue always surprised me as it didn't really present much of his work but as only the covers were printed in colour maybe that's understandable as the beauty of his work is in the way he used hand-colouring. Jan Saudek is one of my favourite photographers (even given some of his more dubious subject matter) - in large part down to his hand-colouring technique and style.
Anyone remember when Camera User magazine became Camera in 1980? I remember buying the first issue and readers of the original 1970s magazine were angry at the changes made to the format. Camera featured work from photographers like Jay Maisel and Ernst Haas, along with many others. The editors however, became arrogant and full of themselves and showed a complete disregard for their longtime readers, which led to their failure. The magazine itself merged with Creative Photographer and both disappeared without a trace.
Love it , a proper drink and a sit down to look at the old mags
I could have drank more but my cameras only film for 20 minutes in one go....so I had to keep climbing up and down and restarting them. I need a solution!
Ahhh yes! Loving this
We could have done with some Stout!
Great!!! I've got some of the 1970's yearbooks. Amazing print quality! The pages are printed by "the sheet fed gravure process" Great essays and photography that still looks up to date.
Thanks Phil! I heard the 80s ones were not as good. Who's in the 70s ones?
Just a few of the more recognisable names! Robert Frank, HCB, Peter Turner, Chris Killip, Les Krims, Homer Sykes, Eugene Atget ++in 1975 book. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lewis Hine, John Blakemore, Lisette Model, Ansel Adams, Marketa Luscacova +++ 1976. Eikoh Hosoe, Lee Freidlander, Sally Mann, Joan Fontcuberta +++ 1978. John Benton Harris, Moholy Nagy, Duane Michals, Martin Parr, Fay Godwin, Albert Ranger Patsch, +++ in the Collect 5 as they named the 1979 book. I'm missing the '77 one! I got the set of 4 for about £20 in the early eighties from the Coo Press bookshop. @@PicturesOnMyMind
I'm 30 mins in and I'm getting vibes of being in a pub somewhere in the Elephant.
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@@PicturesOnMyMind I could watch one of these every couple of weeks! For me, Paul Graham and Chris Killip stole it.
@@nige1rumsey ha! It took me months to edit it! There was a lot to cut! Ha! I probably should have cut more!!!😜
Good edit Ed. 4 solid hours sliced in half. If anyone comsumes the lot ill buy them a lolly... 😂 great fun Ed x
Thanks Jules!!!!
You're a lucky man to have found so many issues of Creative Camera - I lost all mine during a house move years ago. Not sure why you're surprised at the quality of the images (not the repro as Creative Camera was never printed well!) - given the brilliant photographers around at that time. There was an awful lot of rubbish in some issues - not a great fan of endless badly composed B&Ws of banal subjects. Creative Camera was always regarded as the "arty" magazine at the time to distinguish itself from AP, etc. If I remember there should be some issues that record bits of the UK that have long disappeared at the hands of the planners and developers - so they do form a bit of a historic record. The quality of the printing always let the magazine down - later attempts to launch art photography magazines certainly improved on that aspect. Nice to see the Olympus ad with Daley Thompson and Bathe it Daily, as we called him at the time - still one of my favourite and most influential photographers of British photography IMHO.
Yeah, I've got another pile I didn't even manage to get through! And I forgot I pulled out some of the favourite issues four years ago that I DIDNT even look at it the video! Ha! Totally forgot I did that. I loved the layout in some of them. Those massive Killip spreads! 😍
The Czech issue always surprised me as it didn't really present much of his work but as only the covers were printed in colour maybe that's understandable as the beauty of his work is in the way he used hand-colouring. Jan Saudek is one of my favourite photographers (even given some of his more dubious subject matter) - in large part down to his hand-colouring technique and style.
Just went through a Swedish magazine from 1996. Every image would have been world class today. Martin Parr times 10 and better
Anyone remember when Camera User magazine became Camera in 1980? I remember buying the first issue and readers of the original 1970s magazine were angry at the changes made to the format. Camera featured work from photographers like Jay Maisel and Ernst Haas, along with many others. The editors however, became arrogant and full of themselves and showed a complete disregard for their longtime readers, which led to their failure. The magazine itself merged with Creative Photographer and both disappeared without a trace.
Wow news to me... although it sounds like the destiny of lots of photo magazines! How strange.
You said lots of crap 😆 but I would like to see more! 🥰
...cause it was interesting - lots of familiar and unfamiliar stuff
Ha! Thanks and yes there was much crap talking, I edited out 30 minutes of it for this cut! This is Drink & Look not Think & Talk! 😉
sip and see :)
If I'd had some more ales I'm sure I would have got to that! Maybe the next one is with cocktails and is a 'Sip & See'? Thanks David! 😆