London Life

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London Life

description British weekly magazine
Area of ​​Expertise Fashion, mainstream
language English
publishing company New Picture Press
First edition 1920
attitude 1960; New edition 1965 – December 1966
Editors-in-chief David Puttnam , David Hillman
editor Mark Boxer

London Life was a magazine published by the New Picture Press in London from 1920 to 1960.

history

London Life started out as a weekly magazine published in a larger format than A4. The New Picture Press was based in 7a Wine Office Court, an alley on Fleet Street. In 1941 London Life relocated to Katesgrove, Reading. The war rationing forced them to reduce their frequency to biweekly and then monthly from 1942 and their size to A5. From 1945 the seat was moved back to London at 31 Craven St.

New edition

The title London Life was used from 1965 by Tatler under the editor Mark Boxer (May 19, 1931 - July 20, 1988). In its short existence, London Life was the epitome of the swinging sixties . The first issue appeared in October 1965, and in May 1966 an editorial party took place in the newly opened Post Office Tower (now BT Tower). On the guest list, which reads like a who's who of the Swinging '60s, were people such as B. David Bailey , Jane Asher , Peter Blake , David Hockney and Mick Jagger .

The publishing company was the Thomson Group with its Illustrated Newspapers division. Boxer's team included David Hillman and David Puttnam , with Jean Shrimpton as a consultant fashion editor and photographers including Terence Donovan, Duffy and Ron Traeger. Tony Elliott's Time Out hit the streets in August 1968, but there is little comparison. Time Out was a left-wing underground magazine, while London Life stood for the Swinging Sixties smart set, which Boxer himself was a part of. London Life ceased printing for Christmas 1966.

Trivia

London Life was notorious for letters to the editor about dress fetish, so the Irish government banned the magazine in 1932.

literature

  • Simon Wells: London Life. Omnibus Press 2019, ISBN 1-785-5884-35 .
  • Andy Roberts: Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead. MIT Press 2019, ISBN 1-907-2227-82 , p. 129.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kelly's Directory of Stationers, Printers, Booksellers, Publishers and Papers Makers of England, Scotland and Wales and the Principal Towns in Ireland, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man , 1921, p. 694.
  2. ^ New York Times: Mark Boxer, Editor, Cartoonist And Social Satirist, Is Dead at 57
  3. ^ Sallie McNamara: Tatler's Irony: Conspicuous Consumption, Inconspicuous Power and Social Change. Springer 2018, ISBN 3-319-76914-6 , p. 3.
  4. ↑ BBC News: The short life and swinging times of London Life Magazine of October 13, 2015