What Magazine Do You Regularly Read?

[giganova]

Which photography magazine do you regularly read?
On Paper, on tablet, as PDF?
What subscriptions do you have?

 

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none


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[giganova]

None? By choice or because you live on the North Pole?

 

[michaelwj]

None. By choice. I used to read F11, a NZ publication, for some reason I stopped reading it. Not sure why.

 

[sepiareverb]

Used to read LFI regularly, and M. Aperture, Artforum, Art in America, InSight. Was in LFI. But I don't look at much anymore. Ended up not being able to sustain making a living at the art photography game, so I just work for me now. Thus my current avatar image. I look at about 300 folks on Instagram, and books and zines by people whose images I enjoy. I'm settled in my crazy range of cameras, nothing cutting edge, but each capable of doing what I need it to do. I get a lot of pleasure from what I see these days without a magazine. The pressure of remaining current really sucked the joy out of me.

 

[Darthfeeble]

Outdoor and Popular, but I'm going to let Popular go. Black+White as long as it lasts. I did subscribe to LensWork but they never nagged me to renew and by the time I noticed I wasn't getting it I figured that I wasn't missing it. Used to do LFI but didn't renew that on purpose.

 

[giganova]

The pressure of remaining current really sucked the joy out of me.

Same here. I'm torn between the need/desire to keep up what others do or simply ignoring others and doing my own thing.

 

[Brad Bireley]

You forgot "View Camera".

 

[sepiareverb]

Same here. I'm torn between the need/desire to keep up what others do or simply ignoring others and doing my own thing.

I feel very lucky in being able to make enough of a living at something I don't terribly mind doing, which gives me some blocks of time to make photographs. Finding pleasure in photography no longer has any connection to finances for me, which it did from 1983 till about eight months ago. Now that what is "important" photographically has no relationship to "the market" I can look at only what turns me on without distraction. Bliss really. I ignore the market, I enjoy looking.

You forgot "View Camera".

Why would anyone want to look at that? The most amateurishly produced photography magazine ever. Horrific design, with zero attention to detail (zero attention to most anything required for a publication) and generally marginal reproductions. Hard to believe it is still being printed. I tried again over the last two years with it, but really it is just pathetic.

 

[Pioneer]

I used to do Amateur Photographer but it was coming later and later so I finally dropped it. I am letting LFI and M go. I really like them but I can only pay attention to just so much.

Right now I have subscriptions to Lenswork, both online and paper; View Camera, Black & White and Inspired Eye. I still have trouble keeping up with that much.

Between that, these forums, and all the books that Mike Johnston keeps recommending on The Online Photographer, I am pretty flooded.

 

[giganova]

In the past, LFI ~ Inspired Eye ~

That's the two subscriptions that I have. Love both magazines. I occasionally buy the M magazine, but despite having a local Leica store, its not easy to get because they only have a few copies which are gone within a few days.

Your are lucky to live in a city with so many photo exhibits/galleries!

 

[x-ray]

None. Haven't bought a magazine or read one in years. Basically the articles are recycled over and over and many of them are trying to sell the latest gimmick whether hardware or software. Also I'm not interested in what someone else does because I don't want my work to look like everyone else's.

 

[nikonosguy]

Hustler, penthouse, playboy, and nat geo

 

[nikon_sam]

I used to get...

Outdoor Photography
Popular Photography
View Camera
B&W (American Version)
American Photo
Photo Techniques

I don't subscribe to any magazines anymore...

 

[embee06311]

None for a number of years. Back in the day, Camera 35 was a favorite.

 

[John Bragg]

None these days. They are not relevant to my preferred workflow as most are heavily biased to digital. I used to read Black and White Photography, the UK based one, and it was useful and informative, but I gave that up as it became too digital for my tastes.

 

[Rayt]

Popular Photography and Men's Fitness. I need those top 10 tips on glamour photography and firmer buttocks.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Other -> Amateur Photographer.

 

[Doug]

None now. I used to read Modern Photography and continued with Popular after they merged. And American Photography and LensWork. But with the rise of the internet, I get my input from online blogs, forums etc.

Sad for the magazines isn't it that so many of us no longer read them...

 

[s_zemliakov]

LFI and M Magazine at the moment, both great publications