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The two founders of ''The Photogram'' were [[Henry Snowden Ward]] and the significant American photographer [[Catharine Weed Barnes]] who married in 1893. He was born in [[Bradford]], where by 1884 he was associated with Percy Lund & Co., and for them in 1890 launched and edited ''The Practical Photographer'', which he left when together the couple started ''The Photogram'', published in London by Dawbarn and Ward, which continued until 1920.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Hannavy, John | title=Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Taylor & Francis Group | isbn=978-0-203-94178-2 }}</ref> |
The two founders of ''The Photogram'' were [[Henry Snowden Ward]] and the significant American photographer [[Catharine Weed Barnes]] who married in 1893. He was born in [[Bradford]], where by 1884 he was associated with Percy Lund & Co., and for them in 1890 launched and edited ''The Practical Photographer'', which he left when together the couple started ''The Photogram'', published in London by Dawbarn and Ward, which continued until 1920.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Hannavy, John | title=Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Taylor & Francis Group | isbn=978-0-203-94178-2 }}</ref> The couple's punctilious insistence on the term 'photogram' in these titles, at least until 1906 when they bowed to common usage, was a result of their conviction that the etymology of 'photography' demanded that the word photograph was the verb, and that the product of the act of photography was the photogram, just as one 'telegraphs' a 'telegram'. |
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The monthly magazine catered to the advanced amateur and professional and promoted [[Pictorialism]], which was emerging in the 1890s, and art photography, with contributions from by [[Francis Meadow Sutcliffe]], member of [[The Linked Ring]]'','' among other significant authors. Each issue was of about 24 pages measuring about 15x23cm (9x6 inches) and a regular feature was a supplement of full-page photographs printed in high quality; it was a little smaller than the pages of its contemporary the [[British Journal of Photography]] and other early photographic journals. As an example the March 1895 issue contained articles on [[Henry Peach Robinson]] (pp. 65-72) and a brief Biography of J. Traill Taylor FRPS, editor of the British Journal of Photography who was to die later that year in November (pp. 57-58). These were articles were accompanied by portraits of the two men and reviews of their books; ''Picture Making by Photography'' by HP Robinson and ''Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses'' by J Traill Taylor. The picture supplement was devoted to Photo-micrographic work by Scottish microbiologist A.H. Baird.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_p/1_photographic_journals_-_photogram_1895.htm|title=Photographic Journals - The Photogram, 1895|website=www.edinphoto.org.uk|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> |
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====== ''The Photogram'' newsletter ====== |
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An unrelated recent title, also ''The Photogram,'' is the newsletter of the [[Michigan]] Photographic Historical Society, published four times per year since 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miphs.org/the-photogram/the-photogram-index|title=The Photogram Index - The Michigan Photographic Historical Society|website=www.miphs.org|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> |
An unrelated recent title, also ''The Photogram,'' is the newsletter of the [[Michigan]] Photographic Historical Society, published four times per year since 1972.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.miphs.org/the-photogram/the-photogram-index|title=The Photogram Index - The Michigan Photographic Historical Society|website=www.miphs.org|access-date=2019-07-08}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 04:37, 8 July 2019
The Photogram (1894-1920) was a photography magazine published in the United Kingdom with an edition printed in America.
The publication
The two founders of The Photogram were Henry Snowden Ward and the significant American photographer Catharine Weed Barnes who married in 1893. He was born in Bradford, where by 1884 he was associated with Percy Lund & Co., and for them in 1890 launched and edited The Practical Photographer, which he left when together the couple started The Photogram, published in London by Dawbarn and Ward, which continued until 1920.[1] The couple's punctilious insistence on the term 'photogram' in these titles, at least until 1906 when they bowed to common usage, was a result of their conviction that the etymology of 'photography' demanded that the word photograph was the verb, and that the product of the act of photography was the photogram, just as one 'telegraphs' a 'telegram'.
The monthly magazine catered to the advanced amateur and professional and promoted Pictorialism, which was emerging in the 1890s, and art photography, with contributions from by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe, member of The Linked Ring, among other significant authors. Each issue was of about 24 pages measuring about 15x23cm (9x6 inches) and a regular feature was a supplement of full-page photographs printed in high quality; it was a little smaller than the pages of its contemporary the British Journal of Photography and other early photographic journals. As an example the March 1895 issue contained articles on Henry Peach Robinson (pp. 65-72) and a brief Biography of J. Traill Taylor FRPS, editor of the British Journal of Photography who was to die later that year in November (pp. 57-58). These were articles were accompanied by portraits of the two men and reviews of their books; Picture Making by Photography by HP Robinson and Optics of Photography and Photographic Lenses by J Traill Taylor. The picture supplement was devoted to Photo-micrographic work by Scottish microbiologist A.H. Baird.[2]
The American Photogram
The Photogram was simultaneously published in America as The American Photogram with an American section “with the latest home news" edited by there by F.J. Harrison, with its own numbering.[3]
The Process Photogram
Due to the couple’s own interest, and increasingly, that of a cohort of their readers, in the growing industry of photomechanical reproduction, they added a small supplement on the technology. By 1896 it had increased in size and was released as a separate trade journal The Process Photogram.[4]
The Photogram newsletter
An unrelated recent title, also The Photogram, is the newsletter of the Michigan Photographic Historical Society, published four times per year since 1972.[5]
References
- ^ Hannavy, John (2008), Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 978-0-203-94178-2
- ^ "Photographic Journals - The Photogram, 1895". www.edinphoto.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-08.
- ^ "The American photogram". The American photogram. 1898. OCLC 8706159.
- ^ Beegan, Gerry (2008), The mass image : a social history of photomechanical reproduction in Victorian London, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-0-230-55327-9
- ^ "The Photogram Index - The Michigan Photographic Historical Society". www.miphs.org. Retrieved 2019-07-08.