Ars Camera
Ars Camera is one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines.
Although most, perhaps all copies are marked "Ars Camera" in roman letters, the Japanese title is simply Kamera (カメラ). It was published by a company called "Ars" in roman letters or アルス (Arusu) in katakana.
The first issue of Ars Camera is dated April 1921: not such an old photography magazine by Japanese standards (almost forty years younger than Shashin Shinpō) but predating Asahi Camera by five years. With a mixture of photographs, material about cameras, and contests, it set a pattern for mainstream camera magazines that has continued to the present day.[1] It managed to keep publishing despite the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, but from January 1941 was forced to merge with Ars's other magazines Shashin Saron and Camera Club to form Shashin Bunka.
Ars Camera was quick to reemerge after the war, with an issue dated January 1946. Its last issue was dated August 1956.
Note
- ↑ Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu.
References
- Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, An outline history of photography in Japan). (Supplementary 41st volume to the series Nihon no shashinka 日本の写真家.) Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. P. 38.
- Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の奇跡). Catalogue of an exhibition marking the tenth anniversary of the JCII library, Tokyo.
- Tucker, Anne Wilkes, et al. The History of Japanese Photography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8
