Picture Post
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.
Cover of the Picture Post vol. 8 no. 12 dated 21 September 1940 | |
| Editor | Tom Hopkinson |
|---|---|
| Former editors | Stefan Lorant |
| Staff writers | MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, Sydney Jacobson, J. B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott-James, Robert Kee, and Bert Lloyd |
| Categories | Current affairs; photojournalism |
| Frequency | weekly |
| Circulation | 1,950,000 copies a week in 1943 |
| Publisher | Sir Edward G Hulton |
| First issue | 1938 |
| Final issue | 1957 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | London |
| Language | English |
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.
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