I'm keeping on theme this week for my Sepia Saturday post and sharing some images relating to photography. Below are a handful of Focal Photo Guide booklets I picked up a few months ago. Not sure of the age but would guess early 1960's. The black and white covers with the red borders remind me of books I had as a child, which I'm guessing I must have inherited, where colour was used sparingly.
More vintage magazines on my web site
Very evocative of their era, indeed!
ReplyDeleteI'm struggling with this week's theme. I was expecting you to post some more old Picturegoers; this is even better
ReplyDeleteThe colour scheme is very striking & effective!
ReplyDeleteI love the covers. I imagine the covers are the best part of the booklets.
ReplyDeletei love the cover about using miniature cameras. So graphic. Lovely.
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Do you think 60s? I would think 50s or maybe even 40s........
ReplyDeleteThere has been already a love of photography and the want to improve the Technic.
ReplyDeleteI am intrigued that others have followed the "camera" theme this week too, rather than the more obvious "star" theme. Thanks for sharing these evocative magazine covers - most appropriate.
ReplyDeleteThese are great front covers - maybe the magazines should go back to this simple but effective style of cover.
ReplyDeleteI vote for 1955-59. My dad, who is a amateur photographer and camera collector/hoarder, probably still had the originals until I cleaned the attic last year. Splendid techno ephemera.
ReplyDeleteThese are fun! I love the last one.
ReplyDeleteespecially love Children Indoors photo and the Miniature!
ReplyDeleteThese have great style, and they're from an era when it really took a lot of skill to take a great photo.
ReplyDeleteThey so liked using those colors a lot back then! The little girl's expression (in the first photo) is my favorite of them all! Amazing how far we've gone since those days!
ReplyDeleteThese are COOL! I wish I had them. I'll keep my eyes open. Thanks for sharing them with us today.
ReplyDeleteHappy Sepia Saturday,
Kathy M.
The lady in the First Photo Steps looks like she is really (really!) enjoying herself :-) Jo
ReplyDeleteThose old Focal Guides are a fantastic resource. My father was a professional photographer and I have lots of these wonderful books.
ReplyDeleteI think I had some of those that I got from my grandfather. I was born in 68, and probably got them around 76 when I was into taking pictures for about a minute. :-)
ReplyDeleteThe darkroom gadgets issue sounds very interesting. My dad would have loved it, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely 1950s or early 1960s as I can remember own several in the series including the one on darkroom gadgets. The very images brought memories flooding back.
ReplyDeleteI'm still amazed that there's no copyright date on these things. (I KNOW you're familiar enough with books and magazines to know where to look, haha!) A quick internet search -- which mostly brings up eBay listings -- mentions 1950s, except for one reference to 1948.
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