Album (magazine)

Album (photography magazine)

The cover of the first issue of Album magazine
Categories	Art photography magazine
Frequency	Monthly
First issue	February 1970
Final issue	January 1971
Company	Album Photographic Ltd.
Country	United Kingdom

Album was a monthly art photography magazine from Album Photographic Ltd. that published 12 issues between February 1970 and January 1971.^[1]

Although it was a short-lived publication, Album is important in that it featured budding photographers who have since become notable, including several members of Magnum Photos. Featured photographers include Bill Brandt, W. Eugene Smith and Emmet Gowin.

History and profile

Album was founded and edited by Bill Jay (previously editor of Creative Camera);^[2] the publisher was Aidan Ellis^[3] (also previously with Creative Camera, as artist and publisher);^[4] and Tristram Powell, a television and film director, was in charge of finance.

Album remains unique in publishing a combination of contemporary and historical photographers, along with essays and some poetry and drawings.

Issues

Issue 1, February 1970

The February 1970 issue of Album^{[n 1]} featured the following photographers:^{[n 2]}

• Benjamin Stone
• Bill Brandt (also, front cover)
• Roger Mertin
• Sylvester Jacobs

Issue 2, March 1970

The March 1970 issue of Album^{[n 3]} featured the following photographers:

• P. H. Emerson
• W. Eugene Smith (also, front cover)
• David Hurn
• Paddy Summerfield

Issue 3, April 1970

The April 1970 issue of Album^{[n 4]} featured the following photographers:

• Eugène Atget
• Tony Ray-Jones (also, front cover)
• Thurston Hopkins
• Roger Mertin

Issue 4, May 1970

The May 1970 issue of Album^{[n 5]} featured the following photographers:

• Lewis Hine
• Les Krims
• Cas Oorthuys (also, front cover)
• Thomas Barrow

Issue 5, June 1970

The June 1970 issue of Album^{[n 6]} featured the following photographers:

• Andrew Lanyon
• Ernst Höltzer
• Imogen Cunningham (also, front cover)
• Emmet Gowin

Issue 6, July 1970

The July 1970 issue of Album^{[n 7]} featured selections from the 50,000 prints in the George Eastman House Collections

Issue 7, August 1970

The August 1970 issue of Album^{[n 8]} featured the following photographers:

• Eugène Atget (photographed by Berenice Abbott, front cover)
• Paul Martin
• Berenice Abbott
• Duane Michals
• David Hockney

Issue 8, September 1970

The September 1970 issue of Album^{[n 9]} featured the following photographers:

• Roger Mertin
• Brassaï
• Edward Weston
• George Rodger (also, front cover)

Issue 9, October 1970

The ninth issue of Album^{[n 10]} featured the following photographers:

• John Claridge (also, front cover)
• Manuel Álvarez Bravo
• Satyajit Ray
• Charles Harbutt
• John Thomson
• Sir William J Newton

Issue 10, October 1970

The tenth issue of Album^{[n 11]} featured the following photographers:

• Naomi Savage
• Anne Noggle
• Patrick Ward (also, front cover)

Issue 11, December 1970

The December 1970 issue of Album^{[n 12]} featured the following:

• The Royal Photographic Society permanent collection
• Gordon Bennett
• Don McCullin
• Braquehais
• Allen A. Dutton

Issue 12, January 1971

The final issue of Album^{[n 13]} featured the following photographers:

• Édouard Boubat
• Elliott Erwitt (also, front cover)
• Gianni Berengo Gardin

Notes

1. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
2. As with the following lists, this one is not exhaustive. As an example, this first issue also contains material by or about Eikoh Hosoe, Peter Cundall, Jeffrey Blankfort, Philip Jones Griffiths, Lee Friedlander, George Rodger, Jim Dine, and more.
3. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
4. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
5. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
6. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
7. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
8. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
9. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
10. The ninth issue was not available on Bill Jay's website.
11. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
12. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.
13. A PDF of the magazine can be found here within a Wayback Machine copy of Bill Jay's website.

References

1. Brittain, David; Cahill, Clinton (2013). Inside Photography: Ten Interviews with Editors. Stockport: Dewi Lewis. pp. 28–32. ISBN 978-1-907893-46-9.
2. Hopkinson, Amanda (5 August 2009). "Bill Jay: Photographer who found a niche as an advocate of his art". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
3. "Ellis, Aidan website". Aidan Ellis. Retrieved 2011-12-29.
4. "Ellis, Aidan ISBN DB". ISBN DB. Retrieved 2011-12-29.

External links

• Magazine Memoirs: Creative Camera and Album, 1968-1972, by Bill Jay