American Photography
American Photography was a magazine for amateur photographers.
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History
American Photography was a magazine for amateur photographers. It was formed in 1907 through the merger of three other magazines, American Amateur Photographer (1889-1907), Camera and Dark Room (1898-1907), and Photo Beacon (1889-1907). Volume 1 began with the July 1907 issue. American Photography was published by the American Photographic Publishing Company of New York and Boston. Contributors to the magazine included the Camera Club of New York, the Boston Photo-clan, and Photo-Pictorialists of Boston. The magazine also solicited paid editorial contributions from photographers throughout the United States. In addition to photography and editorial content, the magazine included period advertising from photographic equipment manufacturers and distributors.
The magazine had a complicated publishing history. Not only was it formed from the union of three existing photography magazines but it continued to absorb others throughout its lifetime. In 1909, it absorbed Camera Notes (1897-1909), in 1917 it absorbed Popular Photography (1912-1917)[1], in 1919 it absorbed Amateur Photographer's Weekly, in 1920 Photo-craft, in 1932 Photo-Era Magazine, in 1939 The Photo Miniature, in 1942 both Photo Technique and Camera Craft.
American Photography ceased publishing in 1953 when it was purchased by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company and merged into Popular Photography (1937-Present).
Issues
Early issues of the magazine are now in the public domain and some have been scanned as part of the Google Books initiative. All issues of these volumes can read online or downloaded in PDF format for ebook readers.
- Volume 1 Issue 1 (July 1907) - 6 (December 1907)
- Volume 2 Issue 1 (January 1908) - 12 (December 1908)
- Volume 3 Issue 1 (January 1909) - 12 (December 1909)
- Volume 4 Issue 1 (January 1910) - 12 (December 1910)
- Volume 5 Issue 1 (January 1911) - 12 (December 1911) (not scanned yet)
- Volume 6 Issue 1 (January 1912) - 12 (December 1912)
- Volume 7 Issue 1 (January 1913) - 12 (December 1913)
- Volume 8 Issue 1 (January 1914) - 12 (December 1914)
- Volume 9 Issue 1 (January 1915) - 12 (December 1915)
- Volume 10 Issue 1 (January 1916) - 12 (December 1916)
- Volume 11 Issue 1 (January 1917) - 12 (December 1917)
- Volume 12 Issue 1 (January 1918) - 12 (December 1918)
- Volume 13 Issue 1 (January 1919) - 12 (December 1919)
- Volume 14 Issue 1 (January 1920) - 12 (December 1920)
- Volume 15 Issue 1 (January 1921) - 12 (December 1921)
- Volume 16 Issue 1 (January 1922) - 12 (December 1922)
- Volumes 17 - 47 are not scanned or not in the public domain
Notes
- ↑ This is not the Popular Photography magazine published beginning in 1937 by Ziff-Davis, and continuing to the present.
Sources
- American Photography v4, 1910, Google Books
- American Photography, OCLC 1480563