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Asahigraph (アサヒグラフ, Asahigurafu), also known as the Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000.
Asahigraph started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of Asahi Shimbun and soon also of Asahi Camera); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as a weekly from 14 November. In 1926 it was joined by Asahi Graphic (朝日グラフィック) which the Osaka branch of Asahi Shinbunsha had been publishing since 2 January 1921.
Asahigraph survived World War II and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the U.S. magazine Life. (Mainichi Graph, from Asahi's rival Mainichi Shinbunsha, was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000.
References
- Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8. pp. 378–85. pp. 379–80.
- Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3. pp. 38–9.
This article incorporates material derived from the "Asahi Graph" article on the camerapedia wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (June 2018).
External links
Media related to Asahi Graph at Wikimedia Commons
- "Picture Daily in Tokyo", Editor & Publisher magazine, February 24, 1923, p.23