Amateur Photographer - UK (2019-10-18)

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AP SINCE THE BEGINNING

A timeline of

AP’s 16 editors

APowesitssuccessandlongevitytothededication

of some talented past editors. Here they are...

Launched 10 Oct 1884

Amateur Photographer

Launched 10 Sept 1858

Photographic News

LaunchedNov 1888

Photography

Launched 24 June 1903

Focus

Editor R Child Bayley

Combined 1908

AmateurPhotographer

and Photographic News

Combined 1908

PhotographyandFocus

R Child Bayley Editor

CombinedJune 1918

Amateur Photographer and Photography

Launched 1922

New Photographer

Combined 1928

AmateurPhotographer

and Cinematographer

Amateur Photographer

R ChildBayleyEditor

FJ MortimerArtEditor

1918-

GeorgeHughes

Editor-in-Chief

1985-

ALMSowerby

194 4-

RHMason

1963-

MartinHodder

1976-

RoyGreen

1980-

BarryMonk

1985-

KeithWilson

1 989-

GarryCoward-

Williams

1998-

DamienDemolder

2007-

NigelAtherton

2013-present

O

n 10 October1884,J Harris

Stonelaunchedthefirstissue

ofa newweeklyperiodical

‘devotedtotheinterests

ofPhotographyandkindredartsand

sciences’andinhisfirsteditorialhesetout

AP’sstallthus:‘Photographyhas,within

thelastfewyears,becomesopopularwith

amateurs,thatatthepresenttimetheir

numbervastlyexceedsthatofprofessional

photographers.Recruitsofeithersex– for

hereletussaythatladiesmakeexcellent

manipulators– aredailybeingaddedto

therankofthosepractisingthispleasing

andtrulyfascinatingart,whichis notto

bewonderedatwhenoneremembersthat

someofthemostsuccessfulphotographs

thathaveeverbeentakenarethework

ofamateurs.’

HarrisStonewasthesparkthat

ignitedtheflamebutit wasfannedbya

successionofgreateditorswhofollowed.

PerhapsthemostnotablewereAlfred

HorsleyHintonandFJMortimer.Hinton

wasa foundingmemberofthehugely

influentialLinkedRingBrotherhood,a

passionateadvocateforpictorialismand

is widelyregardedasthefatherofBritish

landscapephotography.

A workaholic,Hintonpassedawayin

1908 atthetenderageof45,tobereplaced

byMortimer,theeditorofitsweeklyrival

PhotographicNews, whichAPpromptly

boughtandabsorbed.Mortimerwent

ontobecomeAP’slongestservingeditor,

dedicating 36 yearsofhislifetothe

magazine– a reignthatonlyendedwhen

hewaskilledonhiswaytowork,atAP’s

StamfordStreetoffice,bya German V-

rocket that hit Waterloo Station.

‘SummerClouds’,1907:A beautifulcomposition

displaying Hinton’s romantic, painterly style

JHarrisStone
1884-

CWHastings

1888-

Lt TCHepworth

joint 1890

EJWall

1892-

A HorsleyHinton

1893-

FJM o r t im e r

1906-

F J Mortimer

1908-

FJMortimerEditor

1925-4 4

© A HORSELEY HINTON