Name/Title
MagazineEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0025Scope and Content
Picture Post a weekly publication from London. This issue dated January 14, 1950 has a picture of a young girl with a white cat. No mention of the significance of this picture could be found.
Three pages are devoted to pictures and words describing a 24 hour adventure of a London Taxi.
Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine.
The magazine’s editorial stance was liberal, anti-Fascist and populist 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.Collection
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