Picture Post
The Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine in Great Britain founded by Stefan Lorant in 1938 and published until 1957. Like Liliput , another magazine founded by Lorant, she was considered a pioneer of photojournalism .
From the very beginning, it positioned itself sharply against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and was initially a great success. In December 1943, the sold circulation was 1,950,000 copies per week. After the war, however, the circulation fell and was only 1,422,000 at the end of 1949 and 935,000 in June 1952. The reasons for the falling circulation were seen as the competition from television and the constant change of publishers in the last phase . When it finally sold only 600,000 copies, the magazine was discontinued.
Among the magazine's greatest photographers were Bert Hardy, Kurt Hutton, Felix Man, Thurston Hopkins, John Chillingworth, Grace Robertson, and Leonard McCombe (McCombe later went to " Life "). JB Priestley , Lionel Birch, James Cameron , Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee and Bert Lloyd wrote in the Picture Post ; freelance workers included GB Shaw , Dorothy Parker, and William Saroyan .
After the setting, the Picture Post's photo archive went to the BBC and from then on to the US photo agency Getty Images via various owners .