Forum Übersicht - Cameracraft-Magazin v. D. Kilpatrick & G. Friedman

David Kilpatrick und Gary Friedman bringen ein neues Fotomagazin heraus, das viermal im Jahr in englischer Sprache erscheinen soll und weltweit nur im Abo erhältlich ist. Viel ist noch nicht bekannt, aber sie versprechen, sich von aktuellen und nur allzu vergänglichen Themen fern zu halten und stattdessen den Fokus auf echte fotografische Themen zu legen.

http://www.iconpublications.com/cameracraf...craft-usaworld/
ZITATCameracraft is a new quarterly subscription-only magazine from Icon Publications Ltd.

The first issue appears in September 2012. Edited by David Kilpatrick in Scotland, with US Associate Editor Gary Friedman in Los Angeles, Cameracraft returns to the foundations of good photography.

We invite you to become a charter subscriber to Cameracraft and enjoy receiving through traditional postal delivery a thoughtfully designed and well printed edition every three months. You will want to keep Cameracraft for life. Three or more years of issues will fill a single binder (which will be available after the launch). We promise to do what a printed quarterly can do best, leaving breaking news and hardware reviews to the many internet sites which respond within hours.

Our invited retrospectives and working project portfolios will set a new standard. Our visual content will open your photographic eyes, our view of photographic technology and history will absorb you, our practical advice and experience will help you. We promise this will not be just another photo magazine and the work we print will not be a repetition of popular themes.

Subscription costs $32 in the UK, $36 for Europe, and $39 for the USA/Canada and all other regions worldwide. To subscribe for a single year, select your postage zone option, and click the Pay Now button; to start an annual subscription, select the Subscribe section.

You will receive with your first issue, or under separate cover, a Cameracraft Charter Subscriber card which provides you with an identifying number and private subscribers Forum access. It's also a useful kit bag, film or memory card identifier and processing aid.[/quote]

QUOTE (matthiaspaul @ 2012-08-09, 0:54) David Kilpatrick und Gary Friedman bringen ein neues Fotomagazin heraus, das viermal im Jahr in englischer Sprache erscheinen soll und weltweit nur im Abo erhältlich ist. Viel ist noch nicht bekannt, aber sie versprechen, sich von aktuellen und nur allzu vergänglichen Themen fern zu halten und stattdessen den Fokus auf echte fotografische Themen zu legen.[/quote]

Neu ist die Idee nicht, siehe http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Camera_Craft

Gary Friedman geht auf seiner Seite darauf ein, worin er die Ausrichtung von Cameracraft sieht:

http://www.friedmanarchives.com/cameracraft/index.htm
ZITATIcon Publications and The Friedman Archives present

Cameracraft Magazine

"The last thing you need right now is just another photographic magazine"

For as long as I can remember, the vast majority of the "Popular" photography magazines served primarily as a vehicle for their advertisers. And as I got older things seemed to get worse, as content took a back seat to hearalding the latest gear. As a result, there are generations of photo enthusiasts who were raised with the (mistaken) belief that gear is more important than vision or light when it comes to great photography.

We can do better, and we believe the world is ready for a new photo magazine which returns to the forgotten roots of great photography and spends more time talking about light, composition, mindset, backstory, and the things that give photographs an emotional edge. It will be printed on high-quality stock rather than over-bleached, uncoated newsprint with pulp and fillers. It will be brand agnostic, and inspire its readers creatively by showcasing works and thought processes of other photographers. Into the mix will be thought-provoking informative journalism designed to make the magazine a timeless reference. And while it will contain some ads, the intention is to publish for like-minded readers and not to chase the mass circulation demanded by today's advertisers.

That magazine is called Cameracraft, and is being produced by legendary publisher David Kilpatrick, and I who will be acting as Associate Editor. The first issue (published in September, 2012) was greeted enthusiastically with universal acclaim, so we know we've got something special here.

Our launch team is:

Publisher & Editor - David Kilpatrick, Scotland
USA Associate Editor - Gary Friedman, California
Technical Editor - Richard Kilpatrick, Leicester

We are starting with a 44-page issue but this will have as many EDITORIAL pages as our 76-page news-stand magazines used to have in the 1990s. We'll send you a Cameracraft Charter Subscriber card - a neat reference greyscale and your unique reader number, together with your password for the private forum and a writable panel for your name and other details on the reverse. Keep it with your camera, keep a shot of it on each memory card or roll of film to identify it and help with your workflow.

We invite you to come be inspired once again about the power and mindset of photography and become a subscriber. A subscription link appears below -- Share this with every artistic person you know! (Better yet, subscribe today! I promise you will find it worth your while.

Mission statement from the first issue:

"Time and technology change most things, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. No matter what changes, good photography remains a constant. Our benchmarks for vision and technique go back not one generation or two, but centuries. Daguerre, a working artist, was probably drafting sketches for paintings using a camera obscura a full 200 years ago at the age of 24. How Westernised eyes compose pictures, how we use light and shade and how we interpret two-dimensional perspective all date back over seven centuries.

It doesn't matter that today's cameras use digital technology dating back barely 30 years, or that the best quality may result from a generation of gear designed last year only to be outpaced next year. Ninety percent of the technology behind any photograph is organic. It lies in the brain and the eye of the photographer programmed by our exposure to society, culture, education and art.

Cameracraft is not about being professional, being amateur, being an artist or even just owning a camera. It is about the timeless values of the image. Cameracraft is for anyone who intends to be a good photographer no matter what path technology follows. We will help you rediscover the fundamental values of the photochemical past, and explore the great opportunities of the digital present and future. We will feature classic work old and new. If you see it in Cameracraft, it will because we like it and think you will like it too.

Welcome to your bespoke photographic quarterly; we hope you will enjoy it and keep every issue as a companion for the future."

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Cameracraft magazine will be published quarterly. Annual subscriptions are USD $32 for the UK, $36 for Europe, and $39 for USA and the rest of the world. You can subscribe for a single year or have an automatically-renewing subscription.[/quote]
Ich habe die September-Ausgabe nicht vorliegen, aber ich muß sagen, daß sich das für mich sehr interessant anhört und mich "in Versuchung" bringt, auch wenn ich Abos immer eher skeptisch gegenüber stehe... Hat jemand von Euch das Magazin eventuell schon bestellt und kann davon berichten? Erfüllen die beiden ihren Anspruch?

Viele Grüße,

Matthias

Kenne das Magazin nicht, scheint mir aber etwas in der Richtung wie "Lenswork" zu sein.
http://lenswork.com/