Popular Photography

Popular Photography

First issue, May 1937
Editor-in-Chief Miriam Leuchter
Frequency Monthly
Publisher Steven B. Grune
Total circulation
(December 2012)
359,818[1]
Year founded 1937
Final issue March/April 2017
Company Bonnier
Country USA
Based in New York City
Language English
Website www.popphoto.com
ISSN 1542-0337

Popular Photography, formerly known as Popular Photography & Imaging, also called Pop Photo, was a monthly American consumer magazine that at one time had the largest circulation of any imaging magazine, with an editorial staff twice the size of its nearest competitor.

History

The first issue of Popular Photography was published in 1937. It was based in New York City[2] and owned by a number of companies during its lifetime, including Ziff Davis.[2] It was sold by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. to Bonnier Corporation in 2009. The magazine's last publisher was Steven B. Grune and its last editor-in-chief was Miriam Leuchter.[3]

One of its most well-known editors was American photographer and writer Norman Rothschild, who Edward Steichen once called "the man who makes rainbows."[4]

In early March 2017, the magazine folded, owing to declining advertising revenues from the consumer-camera industry.[5] The March/April 2017 issue was its last. In May 2017, Bonnier was offering to fulfill PopPhoto subscriptions by sending other magazines. [6]

References

  1. "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. December 31, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Popular Photography. March 1984. p. 6. ISSN 1542-0337. Retrieved 7 February 2016.
  3. "Popular Photography". Popular Photography. 76 (9). September 2012.
  4. Durniak, John. From Mind's Eye To Abstract Print. New York Times, December 20, 1992
  5. "Bonnier Folds Popular Photography and American Photo Magazines". The Phoblographer. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  6. Horgan, Richard. "Bonnier Shutters Popular Photography Magazine". Adweek. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
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