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 Cover of the Picture Post vol. 8 no. 12 dated 21 September 1940 | |
| Editor | Tom Hopkinson |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Stefan Lorant, Max Raison |
| Staff writers | MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, Sydney Jacobson, J. B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee, Timothy Raison and Bert Lloyd |
| Categories | Current affairs; photojournalism |
| Frequency | weekly |
| Circulation | 1,950,000 copies a week in 1943 |
| Publisher | Sir Edward G Hulton |
| First issue | 1938 |
| Final issue | 1957 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957.[1] It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,000,000 copies a week after only two months.[2] It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine.[3]
The magazine’s editorial stance was liberal, anti-fascist, and populist,[4] and from its inception, Picture Post campaigned against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. In the 26 November 1938 issue, a picture story was run entitled "Back to the Middle Ages": photographs of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Göring were contrasted with the faces of those scientists, writers and actors they were persecuting.
- ^ "The Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938–1957". Gale Digital Collections. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Hopkinson, Tom (1970). Picture Post 1938-1950. Penguin. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-1400-3115-7.
- ^ "What is Photojournalism? | Icon Photography School". 13 June 2011.
- ^ Hulton|Archive – History in Pictures Archived 2013-05-27 at the Wayback Machine History of Picture Post by the Archive Curator Sarah McDonald, 15/10/04. Accessed March 2008