Re: [Leica] Re: magazines

["Paul Klingaman" <pklingaman@hotmail.com>]

I haven't heard a positive remark about ANY photo magazine from this list 
since I've joined it.  Granted, that's not so long ago, but are there ANY 
good magazines out there IYHO?  How is Aperture?  I picked up the 
Cartier-Bresson book for 11 dollars, hardcover(what a bargain!), and was 
temped by the subscription insert.  40 bucks for 4 issues seems pricey.  Is 
it worth it?  How big is the quarterly, and what is the usual content?

Thanks,
Paul Klingaman


>From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>
>Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>To: "sam" <salex@idt.net>, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Re: magazines
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:01:25 +0000
>
>Point taken about the decline of the "British Empire."  It should have
>learnt from the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.   Alas, what goes up
>must come down.  Who knows... the US stock market might be next in line.
>
>In 1969 when I became serious about photography, Amateur Photographer was a
>well respected weekly magazine which costs us poor secondary school
>students $1.30 per copy.  Yet that was the best magazine available and we
>willingly parted with our hard saved pocket money to read it from cover to
>cover.
>
>I regret to say that AP has not kept up with the times.  Month after month
>and year after year (in the past decade or so), the articles are
>"Amateurish", lack content and the pages are now filled with "B" grade 
>models.
>Thank goodness, they did not flaunt these models when I was a schoolboy;
>otherwise it would have been difficult for the school photography club to
>keep some of these mags within the premises.
>
>Now I am no longer a schoolboy and a wee bit more discerning.  All
>considered, I am putting my money into the various US photo mags which will
>definitely improve my standard of photography.
>
>Dan K.
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