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This first issue features a survey of the 'summer of photography' in London, 2003 as well as new work by Phil Collins, James Deavin, Wen Hao Yu, Trish Morrissey, Danny Treacy and Bettina Von Zwehl.
Contents
- Commentary – Questioning Questions by Stephen Bull
Essay by Stephen Bull on the use of language used to describe photography in academic texts.
- Folio – Trish Morrissey, Seven Years Part 1 with text by Charlotte Cotton
Morrissey and her sister as models meticulously styled to recreate pictures from her family album.
- Interview – The Brighton Photo Biennial
Interview between Jeremy Millar and Gordon MacDonald expanding on the themes of the 2003 edition of the Brighton Photo Biennial.
- Review – Thomas Ruff 1979 to the Present by Simon Grennan.
Simon Grennan reviews the work of influential German artist Thomas Russ on the occasion of his 20-year retrospective organised by Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
- Folio – Danny Treacy Them text by David Chandler
Treacy constructs elabourate costumes from found clothing and makes self-portraits with sinister results.
- Review – Cindy Sherman by Caroline Smith
Caroline Smith reviews the work of Cindy Sherman on the occasion of her 2003 retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery in London.
- Review – Philip-Lorca Dicorcia's A Storybook Life by Val Williams
Val Williams looks at the work of influential American artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia following his show A Storybook Lifeat Whitechapel Gallery in 2003.
- Folio – Wen Hao Yu Visions of China – text by Gordon MacDonald
Wen Hao Yu considers the legacy of Mao Tse Tung and the ongoing iconic status of the Litte Red Book.
- Folio – Bettina Von Zwehl Rain with text by Rachel Taylor
In this pseudo-scientific study, Rain, von Zwehl drenches her subject in studio rain and photographs the range of resulting emotions.
- Review – Wolfgang Tillmans by Jason Evans
Here Jason Evans reviews the influential work of British-based German photographer and his Turner Prize winning show at Tate Britain.
- Folio – James Deavin TV Studio Sets with text by Helen James
British photographer James Deavin documents TV sets and reveals the fakery and fiction of modern media broadcast.
- Forum – Cruel and Tender – Conversation between, David Alan Mellor, David Chandler, Frances Morris, Charlotte Cotton
Round-Table discussion dissecting the first Tate Modern photography group show Cruel and Tender.
- Folio – Phil Collins I Only Want You To Love Me with text by Gordon MacDonald
Folio resulting from Collins’ Photoworks commission made as part of the 2003 Brighton Photo Biennial.
- Review – David Campany’s Art and Photography by Ian Jeffery.
Controversial review of David Campany’s 2003 Phaidon publication, Art and Photography.
