Beginner Magazines

viewfromthenorth said:
I should have @ you to ask, I kind of got lost in the posts somewhat! I’ve followed them on Instagram for a while and I think I might go with the newsletter at first as the subscription is very expensive. I did subscribe to a very good publication a while back who went bust and I never got my years subscription money back. Then they restarted and wouldn’t honour the subscription, tossers. Shame as it was a very good mag, can’t recall what it was called now though.
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I suspect that paper based magazines are all slightly risky long term, as it's probably a niche market., but it's annoying to lose your sub that way.
 
droj said:
I love print as a medium - it has that tactility that a screen can never have. You've got the texture of the paper, the layout, the typography, the binding (though really that's more to do with books) ...

With magazines, the content can often be 'bitty', which can be unsatisfying and a bit like being cheated. But it's a broad church and some are more satisfying than others. One I still miss was Ag under the helm of the late Chris Dickie.
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I still think of a "photograph" as being an object, Something physical and real (prints or books), that provides a very different experience to looking at photographs on a computer screen.
 
For those who want to go mad trying to sift through "photography" magazines.

Magellaria, a specialist magazine shop in Bath, has twelve pages of magazines listed from a search on photography. Hotshoe, The Bj and "Source" (not "The" Source as I called it earlier) are listed, as well as many others, that are less dedicated to photography.

store.magalleria.co.uk

Search: 266 results found for "photography*"

At Magalleria we’ve stashed away one of the largest collections of fine, independent magazines you’ll find anywhere. Explore our collections here.
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jerry12953 said:
That looks interesting........... :)
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It is, and I enjoy reading it, but, I think you need to get used to the breadth of what it covers, i.e some very good "photography" to some that is possibly less good photographs, but still important social documents. So still actually "good" photography within the context of how it's being used .At least I think that is the best way of explaining it.

I was a bit disappointed with the first issue, but I thinking I was expecting something that it was never meant to be. ie a version of Studies in Photography that focused on Nature.

The editor (who might actually be co-editor) was the Chief Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland, who I seem to remember described herself as a Social Historian. She is known for her extensive studies of Hill and Adamson's, who are arguably the first documentary photographers in the world.

I have a few of her books, including one (maybe two) on Hill and Adamson, and a bit of a tome, she co-authored, "Scottish Photography: the first 30 years"
 
Thanks for that Graham. I think that gives me a fair idea of both the scope and the "slant" of the magazine - it makes me think of this book

books.google.co.uk

A Staggering Revolution

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping...
books.google.co.uk
 
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StephenM said:
Thanks for that Graham. I think that gives me a fair idea of both the scope and the "slant" of the magazine - it makes me think of this book

books.google.co.uk

A Staggering Revolution

During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation, exploring the aesthetic and cultural achievements of its leading figures, and mapping...
books.google.co.uk
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That looks an interesting book. But there are too many interesting book !!
 
myotis said:
It is, and I enjoy reading it, but, I think you need to get used to the breadth of what it covers, i.e some very good "photography" to some that is possibly less good photographs, but still important social documents. So still actually "good" photography within the context of how it's being used .At least I think that is the best way of explaining it.

I was a bit disappointed with the first issue, but I thinking I was expecting something that it was never meant to be. ie a version of Studies in Photography that focused on Nature.

The editor (who might actually be co-editor) was the Chief Curator of Photography at the National Galleries of Scotland, who I seem to remember described herself as a Social Historian. She is known for her extensive studies of Hill and Adamson's, who are arguably the first documentary photographers in the world.

I have a few of her books, including one (maybe two) on Hill and Adamson, and a bit of a tome, she co-authored, "Scottish Photography: the first 30 years"
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I see Patricia Macdonald is involved. She and her husband (the pilot) did a book of aerial photography many years ago which showed how landforms viewed from above could create abstract patterns - and this was long before aerial photography became a thing.
 
jerry12953 said:
I see Patricia Macdonald is involved. She and her husband (the pilot) did a book of aerial photography many years ago which showed how landforms viewed from above could create abstract patterns - and this was long before aerial photography became a thing.
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I think she contributed an article. I'm not at home or I would have a look.
 
myotis said:
I think she contributed an article. I'm not at home or I would have a look.
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See this page.

https://studiesinphotography.com/pr...79850&pr_ref_pid=6658928672906&pr_seq=uniform

The original image appears in the book "Scotland from Above" by the Macdonalds. To be fair, it is the best image in the book by a long way (IMO), but the whole thing shows the potential for aerial photography to produce some interesting images. If drones had been available 35 years ago I might have been tempted to try to emulate her work, but hey ho.

I'm tempted to take a punt on "Leaves", though. Thanks for mentioning it.
 
I started reading AP in the 80s because that's all there was then,. If I was starting out now I would just use the internet.

But the best advice I can give you is go out and use your camera and enjoy it
 
No physical ones, but I'm a frequent user of online sources like Digital Photography School and Fstoppers. DPS has some really good tips and gives useful advice and also reviews products quite often, for example, this is the article that introduced me to Photodiva years ago and they also have DIY guides like this one on building the light tent.
I used to like PetaPixel but now they post literally everything if the word "photo" is mentioned. I read their articles occasionally, but they don't have much to offer nowadays.
 
I have a subscription to Outdoor Photographer, I really like the articles by Steve Young (bird guy) and Laurie Campbell... Sometimes I buy an AP if it has something of interest, but I miss the days when you had pages and pages of adverts for used gear or film; at least they do articles on film cameras from time to time.

Noticed N-photo has now gone the way of the dodo, but I do miss the long-gone titles in print - Photo Technique (which I thought was brilliant), Photo Answers and Practical Photography.
 
I tend to think of the 1960s as the "Golden Age" of photography magazines but I suspect that's just the rose coloured spectacles perched on my nose.

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