Asahi Camera (アサヒカメラ, Asahi kamera^?) is a Japanese monthly photographic magazine.^[2] Daido Moriyama (森山 大道, born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. ... Yutaka Takanashi (高梨豊, Takanashi Yutaka) is a Japanese photographer who has photographed fashion, urban design, and city life. ... Bishin Jumonji ) is a photographer who has done advertising, portrait, architectural, and other work. ...

The first issue was that for April 1926.^[3] It has from the outset been published by Asahi Shinbun-sha, publisher of the newspaper Asahi Shinbun. Asahi-OSAKA office Asahi is a common name in Japan, for other uses see Asahi. ...

From the January 1941 issue, it merged with the magazines Geijutsu Shashin Kenkyū (芸術写真研究, "Technique Photograph Studies") and Shōzō Shashin Kenkyū (肖像写真研究, "Portrait Photograph Studies"). Publication was suspended with the April 1942 issue.

Publication resumed after the Second World War with the October 1949 issue. Its cover employed a monochrome portrait of a girl by Ihei Kimura, who would become a major contributor. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Ihei Kimura (木村伊兵衛, Kimura Ihei) is one of the most celebrated Japanese photographers of the twentieth century, particularly known for his portrayal of Tokyo and Akita. ...

Asahi Camera attempts to satisfy interests in all areas of photography, with short portfolios in monochrome and color by established and new photographers (most but not all of them Japanese), contests for readers, articles about technique, and (accounting for much of the magazine's bulk) news and tests of equipment. The April 2006 issue, for example, has over four hundred pages (many of them advertising, but the great majority editorial) with five or more pages devoted to work by each of ten photographers, the announcement of the latest Kimura Ihei Award, articles about equipment (new, old and even future), contests, and much else.

Even if one considers only its uninterrupted years of publication, from 1949, Asahi Camera is the oldest surviving Japanese photography magazine. Like any magazine that attempts to satisfy people with very different interests, it is sometimes criticized for not serving any of them particularly well, but its equipment reviews appear to be as rigorous as any and it continues to attract some of the best photographers for its portfolios. Like many photographic magazines, a lot of its covers somehow happen to show conventionally attractive young women (sometimes nude), and the overall impression it gives is unadventurous, but daring is a rare commodity in the Japanese magazine market and Asahi Camera does display work that cannot be regarded as at all commercial.

Since the demise of Camera Mainichi in 1985, the only rival as a magazine attempting to cater for all photographic interests has been Nippon Camera. Camera Mainichi (カメラ毎日, Kamera mainichi) is a Japanese monthly magazine of photography that started in June 1954 and ceased publication in April 1985. ...

From its 1926 start until around 1932, in addition to the katakana title, the magazine was prominently titled in English, Asahi Camera: The Japanese Journal of Photography. A shortened version, Asahi Camera, continued as an alternative title until late in the twentieth century but is now written "ASAHICAMERA". This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Notes

1. ^ "Hyōshi ni miru Asahi Kamera no rekishi" (「表紙にみるアサヒカメラの歴史」, "The history of Asahi Camera as seen in its covers"), Asahi Camera, April 2006, pp. 233–44.
2. ^ While "Asahi" has consistently been written in kanji (viz. 朝日) for the newspaper title, the titles of most of the publisher's other periodicals and imprints, and the publisher's name itself, the Japanese name of Asahi Camera has consistently been in katakana.
3. ^ During the twentieth century, Japanese monthly magazines routinely came out in the month before the cover date, or even the month before that.

Japanese writing Kanji Kana Hiragana Katakana Hentaigana Manyōgana Uses Furigana Okurigana Rōmaji Kanji (Japanese:  ) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana (片仮名), and the Arabic numerals. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

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