Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Malcolm McCullough wrote: > > Dan K wrote: > > >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. > > What about Camera Owner which became the equally badly named Creative > Camera Owner then, still no better, Creative Camera? They had some > inspiring stuff, miles away from AP. At the time I though that AP was aimed > at people who wanted to become FRPS's (Fellows of the Royal PS). I cherish > the issue of CCO in which Raymond Moore was 'Camera owner of the month'. > There couldn't be a worse description for Ray (God rest his soul). There > was a later CO magazine, I think. Nothing to do with the original. > ><snip> I thought Popular Photography when it had Cora Wright Kennedy, Bill Pierce, Norman Rothschild and a slew of other Notables with a gravure center section was a heck of a magazine. That is when American Photographer first came out. I used to read both cover to cover the day I got them. Mark Rabiner