RE: Camera vs. PhotoWork?
Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Mon, 25 May 1998 13:52:44 -0300
At 8:02 PM -0300 98/05/05, Richard Sullivan wrote:
>Kerik sayeth:
>
>>I think you are referring to Camera and Darkroom, which was a good
>>magazine. It was published by Larry Flynt, and I guess it didn't turn
>>the kind of profits that Hustler does, so they shut it down.
>
>Camera came out of Switzerland, I think Porter's reign was from the late 60's
>through maybe the early 80's. A 1974 copy says it is it's 53th year, so it
>must
>have started in 1921. It might have been a "revival" trademark or something.
>Like those beers that say "since 1802", when actually the company went
>kablooie
>in 1902 and some modern brewery buys the trademark and re-issues a modern beer
>under the label. Maybe Luis, our resident historian, knows more of the history
>of Camera.
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Camera, from Luzern, Switzerland, was published from 07/1922 to 12/1981.
Luis Nadeau
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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