Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/12

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: photojournalism
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 10:03:56 +0200 (MEST)

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Beddoe, Neil wrote:
> I stumbled across Mother Jones when I was in the US and I've since
> subscribed to it.  It's not strictly a photojournalism magazine but the
> standard of photgraphy is very high.

Something that seems to be on the rise here in Sweden and other places,
I'm sure, are monthly journals that are intended to be be sold by the
homeless. They get a good share of the selling price (and people like me
pay a lot more than what they are asking, about $3.50). They are on the
up-and-up, maybe not God's best children, but willing to try and make a
buck without outright begging.

Anyway, the one here in Gothenburg (Göteborg) has a high standard of
photography and one of the most modern printers is one of the sponsors, to
the print is _very_ high quality. The journals are usually about the
situation in the particular locality they are sold in, not syndicated
material. So basically, they are localized "Life" and "Look",
photojournalism without really having that as a business idea.

I had forgotten about Mother Jones ... thanks!
Daniel

> At 05:56 PM 8/9/02 -0400, BD wrote:
> >There are a number of good small magazines devoted to photo journalism and
> >documentary photography, or publications that at least give it space, but
> >the sad reality, Daniel, is that at least in the U.S., there are no longer
> >any general circulation magazines carrying on the tradition of Life, Look,
> >etc.

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