Name/Title
MagazineEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0026Scope and Content
Picture Post a weekly publication from London. This issue dated January 28, 1950 has a cover picture of Jean Simmons with Richard Attenborough celebrating her 21st birthday in her London flat. By this time Ms Simmons had been in over 15 movies some of which she was the star.
An editorial tries to relay the current thinking on the intent to nationalize the British steel, cement, and sugar industries by the Labour Party. British men and women were fearing the monopolies these industries had amassed.
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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