Hōdō Shashin

Cover of Nihon Shashin May 1944. (Image rights)

For Nihon Shashin, see also the camera makers Nihon Shashin Kōgyō and Nihon Shashin Kōgaku Kōgyōsha, and the periodical Nihon Shashin Kōgyō Tsūshin.

Hōdō Shashin (報道写真 in present-day script, 報道寫眞 in the script of the time) is a monthly Japanese photographic magazine, published from 1941 until 1944. Its title means "news photography".

The magazine was created by merging Photo-Times and Camera Art, and was published by Shashin Kyōkai Shuppanbu (写真協会出版部), a government-backed body. Its first issue was dated January 1941. It emphasized documentary photography with a patriotic slant. Its last issue under this title is dated April 1944; from May to September 1944 it lived on as Nihon Shashin (日本写真, 日本寫眞), published by Nihon Shashin Kōsha (日本写真公社).

Sources and further reading

In English:

• Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8. Pp. 378–85. P.382.

In Japanese:

• Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. P.41.
• Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の奇跡, "Traces of camera magazines"). Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. P.11.