Amateur Photographer is a British photography magazine , published weekly by Kelsey Media . The magazine provides articles on equipment reviews, photographic technique, and profiles of professional photographers.
13-564: Amateur Photographer was first published on 10 October 1884 by Hazell, Watson and Viney , making it over 140 years old. It has established itself as the world's number one weekly photography magazine. Some of the most renowned photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, David Bailey and Bob Carlos Clarke have written for the magazine over the years. This magazine is now owned by Kelsey Media which acquired it (with World Soccer ) from Future plc (owner of competing title Digital Photographer ) after Future acquired TI Media ,
26-602: A large US publisher, in 1988. It went on to buy Science Research Associates and the Official Airline Guide later that year. SRA was sold to a joint venture of Maxwell's Macmillan and McGraw Hill the next year. The company went into administration in 1991 following the death of Robert Maxwell. Its properties were sold to various media companies. Time Warner (then parent of Little, Brown and Company ) acquired Macdonald. McGraw Hill acquired that part of Macmillan/McGraw Hill it did not already own outright. OAG
39-522: A new Hopkinson & Cope press, modernised the plant by introducing steam power and considerably expanding the enterprise, initially printing the temperance magazine "Band of Hope Review". His printing contracts soon included the monthly "The British Workman and Friends of the Sons of Toil". To these were added " Eclectic and Congregational Review ", "Alexandra Magazine", "Woman's Social and Industrial Advocate" and "Family Mirror". Walter Hazell (1843-1919) joined
52-718: The 1970s the British Printing Corporation was involved in many disputes with trade unions . In 1978 such a dispute led to The Times and Sunday Times not being published for ten months. In July 1981, Robert Maxwell launched a dawn raid on the company, acquiring a stake of 29%; the following year he secured full control of it. He changed the name of the company to British Printing & Communications Corporation in March 1982 and to Maxwell Communication Corporation in October 1987. The company acquired Macmillan Inc. ,
65-485: The Aylesbury branch was moved to Tring Road in Aylesbury, undergoing periodic expansion from 1885 onwards. By 1939 the firm's employees numbered 1700. Walter Hazell, born 1 January 1843, was the only surviving son of Jonathan Hazell. As chairman he played an active part in the company's affairs for some fifty years, and was a social reformer and Women's Suffrage supporter who wrote a number of pamphlets on social issues. He
78-652: The Viney family played a major part in the running of the company. Hazell's grew after World War II as part of the Hazell Sun group of companies, and in 1963 became the British Printing Corporation , one of the most influential printing and publishing organisations in Britain. The company no longer operates in Aylesbury and has been dissolved. British Printing Corporation Maxwell Communication Corporation plc
91-712: The Year and wins £5,000 worth of vouchers. Hazell, Watson and Viney Hazell, Watson and Viney was an English printing and publishing firm with works in Aylesbury that operated from 1839 to c. 1991. The company started as a printing business established by a certain William Paul in Kirby Street, Hatton Garden in 1839. In 1843 it was sold to George Watson, then working as a jobbing printer and stationer at Tring in Herts . He bought
104-480: The entries down to a short list of 50. From there, the final 'Top 30' are awarded points and published in the magazine; with the top three places being awarded prize donated by Canon UK. All 30 point scoring photographers are entered into the league table; which is edited after each round. After all ten rounds, the photographer with the highest score in the league table is crowned the Amateur Photographer Of
117-612: The firm change its name again, this time to Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ltd , valued at £138,000. The 1890s saw the printing of some sixty newspapers and periodicals at Kirby Street. The legal and commercial printing division was located in Long Acre Street while books were mainly produced at Aylesbury. In 1869 the head office was moved from Kirby Street to Charles Street, in 1889 to Creed Street, Ludgate Hill , and finally in 1901 to Long Acre Street. The Kirby Street works were closed in 1920 and moved to Aylesbury and Long Acre Street. In 1878
130-558: The firm in 1863 and it became known as Watson and Hazell . Hazell launched the "Illustrated Photographer" and " Amateur Photographer ", and also printed the "Marylebone Mercury", the " East London Observer " and the "Bucks Independent". In 1867 the firm opened a branch in Aylesbury and in 1873 another branch in the Strand, London . When John Elliott Viney joined the firm as a partner in 1875, it became Hazell, Watson and Viney . A merger with Ford and Tilt of Long Acre Street , London in 1884, saw
143-416: The previous owner of the magazine. AP (as it is referred to) is usually based around the following items: APOY is an annual competition run by Amateur Photographer , and is open to anyone that earns less than 10% of their yearly salary from photography. Each year's competition is run on a monthly basis, with each month having a dedicated "theme" for the images to adhere to. The APOY judges than narrow
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#1732863214456156-655: Was a leading British media business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . It collapsed in 1991 following the death of its titular owner . The company was established in 1964 when Hazell Sun merged with Purnell & Sons (which also owned book publisher Macdonald ) to form the British Printing Corporation . In 1967, the British Printing Corporation merged its magazines into Haymarket Group . During
169-462: Was also the Liberal Member of Parliament for Leicester between 1894 and 1900, and was instrumental in introducing an employees' sick fund in 1874, one of many such welfare schemes that marked the firm as progressive. The Buckinghamshire County Museum has a portrait of his son. "Hazell's Magazine", which appeared from 1886, was one of the company's first in-house publications. Several generations of
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