Creative camera : thirty years of writing / edited by David Brittain

Includes bibliographical references and index

Mirror with a memory: thirty years of writing in creative camera -- Photography and the mass media -- The scandal of horror photography -- Letter from New York -- Brassai: talking about photography -- In praise of the snapshot -- Dr Erich Salomon 1886-1944: historian with a camera -- Personal notes on dismantling the McCullin exhibition at the V&A Museum -- Picturing the end of the empire: Cecil Beaton -- The Tate Gallery and photography -- Modern photojournalism: the first years -- Thinking photography reviewed -- Some sacred sites: thinking photography edited by Victor Burgin -- Letter: dictators and empiricists -- Flash suit, flash myth -- Revising femininity? --Current comment: Josef Koudelka -- From today black and white is dead -- Deja vu: the rephotographic survey project -- Past caring -- Towards a moral pornography: Joel-Peter Witkin -- A mirror to yourself -- John Gossage's the pond -- Beyond romance: Weston's landscapes -- Pilgrams -- Willie Doherty -- Wlliam Klein -- Between media and art -- A book in the life of ... Jo Spence -- True confessions -- Symbolic spaces -- A snapshot from Bohemia -- Body language -- Film as crime -- Sans-Souci -- Parlour made -- Unsettling the West: contemporary American landscape photography -- Zang Tumb Tuum -- 'I'm buggered without my prjudices' -- The Morgue: Andres Serrano -- Digital phantoms -- Doppelganger -- New Labour -- Between object and images -- Dinos and Jake Chapmans' Zygotic exposure -- Figures in a landscape -- Photography, video and the everyday -- The big shift -- Defining the moment -- Shock photos -- Obedient numbers, soft delight

Founded in 1968, Creative Camera has been a forum for influencing the shape and direction of modern photography. This anthology of 50 texts and their images includes moments from the debate.