The Rio Tape/Slide Archive : radical community photography in Hackney in the 80s
Denney, Alex2020
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In the 1980s, Hackney was one of the most deprived parts of the UK, its citizens ignored by Margaret Thatcher's new vision of Britain. But at Dalston's Rio - London's oldest community cinema - the Tape/Slide Newsreel Group was giving unemployed local youth a voice. Set up in 1982, it taught photography and sound-recording skills, and championed an alternative, left-wing perspective on Hackney life. In 2016, thousands of slides were found in a filing cabinet in the Rio's basement, a legacy of this ground-breaking project. The book presents the best of the slides that were shown in newsreels before the main feature at the Rio, alongside recollections of the Tape/Slide Newsreel Group participants.
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Author:
Denney, Alex, author
Imprint:
London : Isola Press, 2020.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm.
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ISBN:
9780995488663 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.144
Language:
English
BRN:
1905472