Edinburgh's Stills Gallery has been given a collection of Creative Camera issues and memorabilia. The collection has donated by the former editor and documentary maker David Brittain who lives in Edinburgh. David has written extensively about photography magazines, and in 1999 he edited Creative Camera: 30 Years of Writing (Manchester University Press).
The donation to Stills's Library includes an almost complete run of Creative Camera (1968-2000) and most copies of the Camera Owner (1966-1968) which was a predecessor to Creative Camera. Also included is a complete set of DPICT/Creative Camera (2000-2001), a successor to Creative Camera which embraced digital printing technologies, in addition to copies of DPICT’s world-record breaking customised covers.
Over the years, Creative Camera was a unique depository of the work and writings of photographers including Raymond Moore, Jo Spence, Lewis Baltz, Robert Frank and many others. Under David Brittain publication became bi-monthly, and attracted a new crop of writers including Marina Warner, Rebecca Solnit and Geoffrey Batchen.
This collection can be consulted in person and also on the library’s online catalogue, where it is also possible to see all the images used on the front covers of the DPICT/Creative Camera launch issue.
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Roy that is great to know and I hope an institution steps up! Gael
I also have a complete set of Creative Camera, dating from Camera Owner (1964) to DPICT (2001), Issue 1 to Issue 358.
I have scanned the covers and contents pages from 1970-2001 and these are word-searchable (albeit in a fairly crude form) on my website (https://the-golden-fleece.co.uk/wp/creative-camera-indexing/)
I get regular enquiries from academia for details of individual articles and often supply copies for research. I consider this falls withing the UK's 'Fair Use' (Fair Dealing} regulations:
As far as I am aware, mine is the only 'complete' collection (correct me if I'm wrong). It was accummulated over many years and at no small expense.
However, I am now at the stage in life where I am actively seeking an institution or library prepared to take it off my hands following (or before) my departure. Anyone interested should reach out through here or my site.
lets hope a sponsor comes forward to digitize these wonderful magazines
Would be nice but I suspect copyright issues might prevent that, sadly.
Yes a pleasure for some future generation after copyright ends although I thought magazine s could be reporduced if the magazine was defunct.
There are secondary rights from the photographers/writers included... The BL had a massive issue when it tried to digitise Spare Rib. See https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2015/05/digitising-spare-rib-m...