Camera (Japanese magazine) explained

, or Ars Camera, Arusu Kamera), was one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines.^[1] It was published by the company Ars.^[2]

History and profile

The first issue of Ars Camera is dated April 1921: predating Asahi Camera by five years. With a mixture of photographs, material about cameras, and contests, it set a pattern for mainstream camera magazines that has continued to the present day.^[3] It managed to keep publishing despite the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, but from January 1941 was forced to merge with Shashin Salon, Shashin Saron) and Camera Club (Kamera Kurabu) to form Shashin Bunka .

Camera was quick to reemerge after the war, with an issue dated January 1946. For some years it was edited by Kineo Kuwabara. Its last issue was dated August 1956.

References

• Shirayama Mari . "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" . Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu ("An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. . P. 38.
• Shirayama Mari . Shashin zasshi no kiseki ("Traces of camera magazines"). Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. . P. 5.
• Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. . Pp. 378–85. P. 378.

External links

• "Ars Camera" at Camerapedia.

Notes and References

1. Although the covers of most, perhaps all issues are marked "Ars Camera" in roman letters, the Japanese title is simply Kamera .
2. Usually so written even within Japanese, but (Arusu) when in katakana.
3. Shirayama, "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi".