British Journal of Photography
The British Journal of Photography is named after the Photographic Journal of the Royal Photographic Society , the world's second oldest trade magazine for photography . The magazine was founded in 1854 under the title Liverpool Photographic Journal and has been published under its current title since 1860.
Today, the British Journal of Photography addresses an audience interested in photography as an art form and offers them illustrated background reports on leading photographers , their projects and exhibitions, interviews and test reports on photo technology .
Michael Hallett rated the British Journal of Photography 2008 as one of the “world's most influential photography magazines” since the 19th century.
Publication history
The British Journal of Photography was first published on January 14, 1854 under the then title Liverpool Photographic Journal and appeared under that name until December 1856. For the next two years it appeared under the title Liverpool & Manchester Photographic Journal and from January to December 1859 under the name Photographic Journal . In the early years the magazine was published by the Liverpool Photographic Society and appeared on a monthly basis. The magazine appeared biweekly from January 1857 to December 1864 and weekly from January 1865 on.
The first editors of the British Journal of Photography were members of the Liverpool Photographic Society. From June 1857 to February 1858, TA Malone, brief assistant to photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot , was the editor. From 1865 to 1879 J. Trail Taylor took over the editorial office until he handed it over to WB Bolton after he moved to New York (where he took over the editorial office of the photography magazine Photographic Times ). Bolton published the magazine until shortly before his death in 1895.
In the 19th century, the British Journal of Photography published articles from a group of international authors. In the 1880s and 1890s, the magazine reached 800 pages annually in quarto format .
The magazine is now published monthly both in print and - since September 2011 - in an online edition for the iPad . In the first fifteen months of its publication, the iPad edition increased the reach of the British Journal of Photography by 2500%. At the same time, the number of subscribers to the online edition was 70% higher than that of the print edition. In 2012, the iPad edition of the magazine was named “Photography Magazine of the Year” at the 10th Lucie Awards in Los Angeles .
literature
- Michael Hallett: The British Journal of Photography. In: John Hannavy (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. New York 2008, p. 214 f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Since 1860, The British Journal of Photography has retained the enviable position of being one of the most influential photographic journals in the world," Michael Hallett: British Journal of Photography. In: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. P. 215.
- ↑ For this and the following cf. Michael Hallett: British Journal of Photography. In: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. P. 214.
- ^ Michael Hallett: British Journal of Photography. In: Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography. P. 215.
- ^ A b British Journal of Photography grows readership 25x with iPad app ( Memento from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Specialist Media Show (2013).
- ↑ Lucie Foundation Newsletter. 39 (October 2012).