Nippon Camera

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Nihongo".[1] is a Japanese photography magazine, published between 1950 and 2021.

Nippon Camera started in March 1950 as a bimonthly magazine, published by Kōgeisha (Tokyo) as the successor to the book series Amachua Shashin Sōsho (1948–49). It became a monthly magazine from July 1951.[2][3]

The magazine is now (2020) published (in Tokyo) by Nippon Camera-sha, which has also published an annual, Shashin Nenkan (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler) and other photography-related books.[4]

Since the demise of Camera Mainichi, the sole rival of Nippon Camera as a photography magazine attempting to cater to all interests was Asahi Camera, but this too was discontinued in summer 2020.

In April 2021 the magazine announced that it will suspend its publication after the May 2021 issue.[5]

Notes

  1. While 日本 can be read as either "Nippon" or (more commonly) "Nihon", the front covers of newer issues of the magazine are clearly labeled "Nippon Camera" in Roman script in addition to the Japanese script. However, early issues lack this clarification on the front, and clearly announce "Nihon Camera" in Roman script on the back cover. (The February 1953 issue is an example.)
  2. Mari Shirayama, "Major Photography Magazines", pp. 378–385 of Anne Wilkes Tucker, ed., The History of Japanese Photography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003; Template:ISBN).
  3. Mari Shirayama (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler), pp. 38–43 of Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (Script error: No such module "Lang".Template:Category handler, "An outline history of photography in Japan"; Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999; Template:ISBN).
  4. Nippon Camera-sha website.
  5. Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".

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