Bob Michaels
nobody special
In the mid-60's, I had several hours in the university library every day. I read Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic, and looked at Stern and Paris Match. I developed an appreciation for informative pictures without reference to "photography" as many here relate to it. That influence continues today.
Dogman
Veteran
Oh yes indeed. Those magazines played a big role in my childhood. When I was in college I discovered a cache of 1950s Life and Look magazines at an aunt's house. I spent hours pouring over those magazines. In addition to the pictures and stories, the advertising was great. There were brands of automobiles advertised I had never heard of at the time. Henry J? And cigarette ads that extolled the health benefits of smoking.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
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@Dogman
This might be old news but you can find some scanned issues of Life here:
You can also find scanned issues of Popular Photography here:
@Dogman
This might be old news but you can find some scanned issues of Life here:
LIFE
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to...
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You can also find scanned issues of Popular Photography here:
Kai-san
Filmwaster
Black & White Photography still exists, I've been subscribing for quite a few years. I keep it mainly for the artistic content which is of fairly high quality. Gear reviews are no more than two or three pages and rarely of any interest to me since it's mostly digital. There is not much choice in print magazines these days, in addition to B&W Photography I keep the German PhotoKlassik and the Silvergrain Classics. I find the PhotoKlassik quite interesting with reviews of new films and developers plus reviews of old cameras. It's strictly analog, but you need to be able to read German. I also keep the Norwegian "Fotografi", but it seems to have been hijacked by curators. Lots of fancy talk and almost no pictures. I'll cut it one of these days.
JohnWolf
Well-known
Don’t forget those many back pages of store listings in Pop Photo and Modern Photo in what must have been five point type. I spent a lot of time there fantasizing and figuring what I might actually afford. Cambridge and 47th St. Photo were my goto shops. Not sure if they even exist anymore.
John
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p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Another big bonus of subscribing to photography magazines were the discounts on certain extras such as photography books. I have a couple issued by Kodak but my favourite is a book containing the pictures of a Greek photographer called Dimitris Harissiadis.
These pictures feel so familiar to me, I feel like I have visited those places and met those people. I got it back in 1994 and whenever I flick through its pages it always evoke good memories.
These pictures feel so familiar to me, I feel like I have visited those places and met those people. I got it back in 1994 and whenever I flick through its pages it always evoke good memories.
Erik van Straten
Veteran
A long time ago I subscribed to a wonderful Swiss magazine called "Camera". The reproductions of photographs contained therein were beautiful. Yet something was missing from that magazine, namely information about how the photos were created and about how the magazine's subscribers themselves could achieve such results. The photos were also very neat, but you forgot about them as soon as you closed the page. I imagine the magazine is long defunct.
Erik.
Erik.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
The lack of context and my inability to figure out how to do them myself was one of the reasons why I stopped buying the French Foto. Not that it wasn't there, it's just I couldn't read French.
Freakscene
Obscure member
I’m a bit of a hoarder. My smart phone and a translator have made me glad I kept a lot of things. I don’t mind going slowly.