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It’s not all trendy fashion magazines in picture frames, you know. Rhys from Clinc-R magazine sends me a link to some quite remarkable images from Caban, the in-house magazine of the Oakley and Vottie slate quarries in Wales, some of the largest in the world. The magazine continued until the early sixties – the quarries are still running, but probably not quite like this.
Caban also published a complete dictionary of local mining terms (PDF), with explanations that are no less fascinating as the photographs, such as “Cerddad bar – Common practice when two men walk on parallel rails grasping each others coats at the back.” and “Cerrig fel iau – Slates easy to split like liver.”
“Me old ma has the whole set!” Rhys says. Lucky lady.
No sooner do I blog about zombie magazines being revived through their archives than Life gets together with MagCloud to reproduce their original Woodstock issue (though it seems from the preview that the ads have been removed).
The pair are also apparently teaming up to allow users to compile their own magazine using images from the Life back catalogue – the one major restriction seeming to be that they all have to come from the same date. You’ll be allowed to add in images of your own too, for the perfect ‘Dad’s Christmas present’ win.
I do wish they’d be a little more adventurous with it all. I’d love to have the chance to put together my own re-editing of Life‘s archive, Lilliput style.
Colophon is now Twittering!
Follow us all the way to Luxembourg – and then receive updates on talks and events during the festival. Also some early spreads from our forthcoming book are now viewable (click on the small images)
Docu recalls the love behind legendary New Orleans independent mag
I can’t imagine anything more opposite to The September Issue
Designer returns to his pet project: Diamante magazine
John describes it as “printed using letterpress, screen-print, lithography, die-cut, foil-block, a range of materials, inks and whatever I feel appropriate at the time.” He’s creating 6 issues a year, printing only 300 of each issue and selling them for (I think) £12 each. You can see some pics of the lovely-looking first edition here (PDF). A handful of subscriptions remain – email him for more information
Another online photography magazine launches
A great start, too. Following on from 1000 Words, and others, it seems that love of great photography is leading to some of the most interesting online magazines so far
Prada asks fashion editors to decorate their windows
Who’s doing product placement now?
Digimag Spektacle cryptically returns
It’s not a real suburban village, I promise. Somewhere I have their first edition from 2001, that came on a mini CD-Rom. They’re still experimenting with the strange combination of fashion and QR codes, now with iPhone reader. I can just never be bothered to take the picture and do the searching
Great magazine covers, daily
Not sure who we have to thank, but thanks (and thanks René for the heads-up)
Crisis roundup
Craft closes
Make survives. The spin-offs keep on spinning away
Guardian prints a publishers’ report card
I know things are bad, but there’s no need for those unfunny puns
Momus’s life through magazines
“There are hardly any pictures of the outsides of British newsagents in the 1970s”
Interview with the editor of 1970s mag Contemporary Photographer
Part of Foto8‘s series of looks at classic photo magazines. Looking forward to when they get to Reportage.
SI Wiki Vault
Brave move, letting their archive loose inside a sports-focussed wiki. Seems to be working quite nicely.
Novel made from 40,000 snippets of 1960s women’s magazines
I missed this when it first came out. Have now ordered it – sounds great.
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