Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Mark Rabiner wrote: > 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 > Cora and Norman are no longer with us. Those were the good ole days when camera makers advertised in the photo magazines and supplied the needed money so that the magazines could do a good job (most of the time). In the late 1960s I was the U.S.Editor of Creative Camera, which was first called Camera User. From 1971 to 1986 i was the Executive Editor at Popular Photography. Worked on the teaching stories, mostly. One of my favorites was the Hattersley Class. Hat lives in Texas now. If anyone would like to write him snail-mail I can supply the address. Just send me an E-Mail message. Ed Meyers