Popular Photography

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Popular Photography
Popular Photography logo.jpeg
Popular Photography May 1937 Cover.jpg
First issue, May 1937
General ManagerAdam Morath
FrequencyFully digital
Total circulation
(December 2012)		359,818 [1]
Founded1937
Company Recurrent Ventures [2]
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City
LanguageEnglish
Website www.popphoto.com
ISSN 1542-0337

Popular Photography, formerly known as Popular Photography & Imaging, also called Pop Photo, is a monthly American consumer website and former magazine. The magazine ceased print publication in early 2017 [3] but began publishing as a web-only magazine in June 2018. It officially relaunched in December 2021, before finally shutting down operations in November 2023. [4]

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One of its most well-known editors was American photographer and writer Norman Rothschild, whom Edward Steichen once called "the man who makes rainbows." [5]

History

The first issue of Popular Photography was published in 1937. It was based in New York City [6] and owned by a number of companies during its lifetime, including Ziff Davis. [6]

In 1989, Diamandis Communications purchased Modern Photography , a smaller rival of Popular Photography, and merged the magazines adding a circulation of between 500,000 and 689,000 at the time. [7] [8] [9]

Diamandis was purchased by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 1988 which subsequently sold the magazine to Bonnier Corporation in 2009. [10] The magazine's last publisher was Steven B. Grune and its last editor-in-chief was Miriam Leuchter. [11]

In early March 2017, the magazine folded, owing to declining advertising revenues from the consumer-camera industry. [12] The March/April 2017 issue was its last. In May 2017, Bonnier was offering to fulfill PopPhoto subscriptions by sending other magazines. [13]

PopPhoto soft-relaunched as an online-only publication in June 2018, and officially relaunched in December 2021. [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Alliance for Audited Media. December 31, 2012. Archived from the original on April 18, 2014. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Brands". Recurrent. Archived from the original on September 5, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Popular Photography is Dead After 80 Years as a Top Photo Magazine". PetaPixel. March 7, 2017. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  4. ↑ Schneider, Jaron (November 27, 2023). "PopPhoto is Dead, Again". PetaPixel. Retrieved October 23, 2025.
  5. ↑ Durniak, John (December 20, 1992). "From Mind's Eye To Abstract Print". The New York Times . Archived from the original on August 14, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Publication information". Popular Photography. Vol. 91, no. 3. March 1984. p. 6. ISSN   1542-0337 . Retrieved February 7, 2016– via Google Books.
  7. ↑ Rosenbaum, S.I. (July 1989). "Modern Photography Acquired". Modern Photography. 53 (7): 4.
  8. ↑ New York Times (The); Grundberg, Andy (May 28, 1989). "Pastimes" (section) "Camera" (Grundberg column) – "Reminiscences Over The Demise of a Well-Known Photography Magazine". Lock-green.svg . Vol. 138, no. 47884 (Late ed.). p. 60. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
    Alternative access → permalink – via TimesMachine. ProQuest   427206987 (US Newsstream database).
  9. ↑ Chicago Tribune; Grundberg, Andy (July 7, 1989). "Modern Photography Magazine Falls Victim to Change". Lock-green.svg . Vol. 143, no. 188. p. 70. Retrieved July 21, 2019. ProQuest   282589227 (US Newsstream database).
  10. ↑ Geraldine Fabrikant (April 14, 1988). "Hachette to Buy Magazine Publisher". The New York Times . Retrieved December 16, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Popular Photography". Popular Photography. Vol. 76, no. 9. September 2012.
  12. ↑ Gampat, Chris (March 6, 2017). "Bonnier Folds Popular Photography and American Photo Magazines". The Phoblographer. Archived from the original on March 17, 2017. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
  13. ↑ Horgan, Richard (March 8, 2017). "Bonnier Shutters Popular Photography Magazine". Adweek . Archived from the original on March 11, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  14. ↑ "You should buy an instant film camera—here's how". Popular Photography. June 6, 2018. Archived from the original on November 15, 2021. Retrieved November 15, 2021.
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