Re: [Leica] OT Re: UK magazines

[D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg>]

>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.
>
>The thing about CC was that it was financially supported by Colin Osman,
>the publisher. He was an enthusiast. His other love was racing pigeons (the
>pigeons usually beat him) and he published a pigeon mag as well. His
>initials happened to be C O O, so his company was called Coo Press - very
>appropriate for a pigeon magazine publisher. CO, CCO and CC had a lot of
>images and very little tech talk or adverts. CC was printed by sheet fed
>gravure in the early days. It had a silver cover. 
>
>CC is still hanging on. I seem to remember going to its 25th birthday party
>a while back, before it moved from London to Manchester. It has changed
>ownership and style (hasn't photography changed a little as well?), but is
>still heavy on content and very light on advertising and tech talk.
>
>I think that the distinctive UK photography magazines have been the low
>circulation ones that dealt with photography itself and had very little
>advertising or technical content. Camerawork is the most famous (an
>anthology of articles was published recently). Ten.8 was another.
>
>Regards,
>Malcolm
>Singapore
>

After parting with our hard saved pocket money, we could not look very far
beyond AP :).    I grew up in Ipoh, Malaysia and I have not come across CC
in the newsstand there.

Dan K.
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