RE: [Leica] OT Re: UK magazines

["Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca>]

And I still have a few old issues of "Photography" in a box, which was a
great mag until it went down the tubes about 10 years ago

Tim A

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: July 22, 1999 2:11 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT Re: UK magazines
>
>
> 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
>