Home of The Creative Camera Archive, plus notes on Photography, Photographers and Photographic Ephemera
About Creative Camera Magazine
Advances in digital printing technology were utilised to print customised copies with over 500 different covers for the first issue.
From April/May 2000, the magazine changed its name to DPICT. The design, layout and typography of DPICT make it very difficult to render with OCR software. Although every attempt has been made to enable useful searchable content, there will be omissions.
Continue reading “1980s – Creative Camera Archive”At the start of the 1980s, Creative Camera ran into financial difficulties and there was a gap in production. The set for 1980 comprises just 6 issues, the last two of which were double issues, ending in August. No further issues appeared until March 1981.
During the course of the decade, several double-issues were produced.
Clicking the link above each thumbnail will open the PDF file for further searching or you can click on the thumbnail to view it full screen – although it is not searchable in this view.
You can scroll through the enlarged view, or use the menu at the base of the screen to zoom, navigate, download or return to the thumbnail view.
Try using the search box below with a photographer’s name to explore the results.
An ongoing project to scan the contents of all copies of Creative Camera Magazine from the time it adopted that name until it changed into DPICT.
Ever since I managed to assemble a collection of every issue of Creative Camera, from its beginnings as Camera Owner in 1964 to its demise as DPICT in 2001, it has been my goal to make this resource web-searchable. Continue reading “Creative Camera Indexing”
I discovered these whilst sorting through some old material. I’d forgotten I had them.
There is a Creative Camera letterhead, one for Coo Press featuring a woodcut of a pigeon-handler, and a page headed ‘Creative Camera Gallery’ – a short-lived venture on the Doughty street premises.
Continue reading “Creative Camera Stationery”
Produced in 2004 and published by Creative Camera, this sketched outline by David Brittain aimed to show the key survey exhibitions, institutions and publications that formed the backbone of the British photography scene. Continue reading “Family Tree of British Photography”
Over time, I have collected every issue of Creative Camera ever published. As far as I am aware, it is only one of a handful of complete sets in the world.
I thought it would be interesting to assemble a mosaic of all the covers, from May 1967 (when it was still Camera Owner) until May 2001 (when it had morphed into DPICT).
