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Steve Anchell

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Dear APUG Member,

I would like to make you aware of Photovision magazine and make a special offer to you.

Photovision magazine is about the art and technique of traditional, film based photography. Each issue contains at least three portfolios by established and emerging artists, in addition to thought provoking columns by Robert Hirsch, Greg Erf, Margaret Regan, and Randall Lamb. "Camera Views" by Paul Lewis discusses vintage cameras, lenses, and how to get the most out of them. "Tools & Techniques," by Stephen C. Peterson, is, well, tools & techniques. In "From the Gallery" Joette O'Connor helps you to navigate the gallery scene. All this and feature articles to help you improve your work, as well as promote and market what you already have.

Contributors to Photovision come from all over the world. Mako from Greece, Paul Lewis from Canada, Dr. Tim Rudman and Les McLean (yeah, Mr. Black & White) from the U.K., Dennis Chin from China, Burkhardt Kiegland from Austria, and more. Portfolios are equally diverse, Jan Pohribny from Hungary, Pupo from Cuba, Rafael Roa from Spain, Sandro Santioli from Italy, to name a few.

In addition to editing Photovision, I am the author of The Darkroom Cookbook, The Variable Contrast Printing Manual, and The Film Developing Cookbook. I have been teaching photography workshops since 1979. In 1999 I established a school of alternative photography workshops for the Photographers’ Formulary in Montana (www.workshopsinmontana.com).

The first 100 members of APUG to write Deana Fisher, pvadvert@ctelco.net, will receive a free sample issue. Let her know that you heard about Photovision through APUG.

Photovision is published 6 times a year. Subscriptions can be placed online at www.photovisionmagazine.com, or by calling 719/256-5099. The cost in the U.S. is only $26.95, in Canada & Mexico $39.95US, all other countries $49.95US.

Please take advantage of this offer and enjoy a free issue of Photovision with my compliments.

Steve Anchell
Editor

Okay, let’s get serious. Have a little apugger to apugger talk. For three years Photovision has struggled as the ONLY magazine in the world dedicated to all aspects of analog photography, color, b/w, large format, medium and 35mm, alternative processes - no digital, not even inkjet prints from scanned negatives. In our 64 pages we strive to provide a forum for analog photographers to present and discuss their work.

I’m going to be brutally honest. Small publications survive on subscriptions, not advertising. We’re not making it folks. It appears that there are not enough analog photographers (I’m talkin’ to you, pad’nuh) willing to shell out $26.95. We haven’t thrown in the towel yet, but if more of you don’t subscribe we may eventually be forced with a decision we don’t want to make: incorporate digital or go bust.

So what? One more rag more or less, right? The “so what” is this: Photovision is the only magazine that sends a clear signal to Kodak, Ilford, Durst, Schneider, Hasselblad, Agfa, Fuji, and all the other big daddies of the photo industry that make film, paper, and enlargers, that analog is not dead. If Photovision dies or has to go digital, then the above named suspects will say, “See, they couldn’t make it. Maybe we should stop making b/w film and design another chip. We can always advertise in...”

This is a magazine worthy of your support.

This is the magazine that has just completed six parts of a seven part series on BTZS by Greek photographer, Mako.

This is the magazine about which Jerry Uelsmann said, “The interview of me (by Robert Hirsch, Sept/Oct 2002) was the most in-depth in over a decade.”

This is the magazine that published the last interview with Oliver Gagliani.

This is the magazine that not one, but two of Ruth Bernhard’s closest photography associates said they learned things about Ruth in her Photovision interview that they never knew – things that weren’t even in her autobiography.

This is the magazine that published Dr. Tim Rudman’s in-depth article on toning in three parts because he couldn’t get all the information he wanted in one, or even two, parts.

This is the magazine that received a letter from Barbara Lowry of Cooke Optics, saying that we were the only magazine to review the Cooke PS945 Soft-Focus Lens (Jan/Feb 2003) and get it right (“Your review is the only thing in print about the Cooke lens that I have seen with 100% correct information in it...”)

Recently, APUG net administrator, Sean, wrote me to say, “...the 'analog' community is becoming more fragmented and fading away. I think if the analog community can partner up a little we'll be strong enough to ride this out.”

Photovision needs your help. If analog photographers aren’t willing to subscribe, who will? I’m asking you to spend $26.95 to walk your talk and support the last printed forum of pure analog, before it’s too late.

Please, take advantage of the free issue, I really want you to have it, especially if you’ve never seen Photovision. Aw, c’mon take it. But then go to www.photovisionmagazine.com and subscribe for 6 more. Think of your subscription as a donation to a political party. Cast your vote for analog.
 
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I would like to thank Jeremy Moore for being the first apugger to respond to my offer for a free copy of Photovision - I barely had my finger off the submit button when he responded!

Thank you, Jeremy.
 

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Well, I just subscribed to the magazine because Steve is absolutely right. If we are comitted to this artform, and are determined to see it's existence continue, then sacrifices have to be made (some of them financially). 26 dollars a year is easily acceptable to me. It would be a real blow for us to loose this fine magazine dedicated to our medium. I'll be looking into subscribing to Black and White Photography as well. For those living overseas the subscription is more costly so.... Since I am in New Zealand I set my subscribtion as a 'gift' which will be sent to my parents in the US, who will then mail it to me. I'm sure a few members in the US will volunteer to distribute some issues to our members overseas. So if any international folks want to do this to offset international subscription costs, post in this forum and a member in the US will hopefully contact you for arrangements.

Steve will also help us get the APUG name out there in various ways, more on that later.

I'd also like to see some type of 'traditional photography ring' being developed. Where companies, magazines, websites dedicated to the medium can come together. Then people can support the companies in this ring by using their products or services. It shouldn't be hard to do this, the only factor is finding the time. If any members are interested in taking something like that on let me know.

Thanks Steve. We appreciate this great offer and your honesty.
 

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I have enjoyed Photo Vision since I discovered it almost a year ago. It seems rather silly to me, as I look back, to realize that I have been paying the news stand price for all of those issues. I attempted to phone and place my subscription this evening. Unfortunately the office was closed.

The very first thing Monday morning I will be placing a phone call to subscribe for two years. I believe in the future of this publication. I believe in the future of this form of photography.
 

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I saw that you joined APUG yesterday Steve. Welcome. In Fact it was Don that has an article in your current issue that sent me my first copy of photo vision. I normally don't get subscritptions, but I have never seen your magazine at any store near me. I'm in the San Francsico bay area too. I took that copy with me to a recent workshop with Per Volquartz. Several of the people there had not heard of your publication either.

Just did the on line subscription thing, so one more impressed subscriber. Best of luck.
 

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Steve, I enjoyed the magazine since issue one, then I moved to Mèxico, cannot get it here, if you will e mail me the subcription cost to Mexico and an address where I could send the money I will take care of it Monday.
 

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_Photovision_ is good stuff. I do pick it up occasionally at the news stand, but I will subscribe when I'm back in town next week.
 

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I just went to my stacks of past photo magazine issues and realized I had bought the last 6 issues- all at news stand price. So With Steve's reminder I just placed a 1 year subscription.


If you have never picked up a copy it is a great magazine. It reminds me of the original Camera and Darkroom magazine in its scope and intelligence. If I could only get two magazines one would be Photovision and the other Lenswork.

If you are like me and figure you will buy an occasional issue off the newsstand and end up buying every issue, save some money for paper and film and subscribe.
 

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I have never seen it here in Norway - so I hope the offer extends to over here as well...
 

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I have to confess it is a new magazine to me. It would be nice to have a look at a copy.
roy.
 

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Jim68134 said:
If you have never picked up a copy it is a great magazine. It reminds me of the original Camera and Darkroom magazine in its scope and intelligence. If I could only get two magazines one would be Photovision and the other Lenswork.

Two magazines, the demise of which I regret, are the American and the British Camera & Darkroom magazines.
roy. (again !)
 
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Jim & Roy both lament the demise of Camera & Darkroom magazine.

The first magazine I ever wrote for in 1989, was Camera & Darkroom.

I, too, lamented the demise of that magazine, so when I was asked to edit the new publication, Photovision, C&D was my model, which is probably why so many people see a similarity.
 

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Hi Steve,

What's better for you, if I buy from a newsstand or via subscription?
If it's the same, I'll get a subscription, I like getting things in the mail :smile:

Dave
 

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He is asking for subscriptions. If the magazine business is anything like the record business, the distributors and stores are taking a major chunk of the newstand price.

Brian
 

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A Russian scientist and a Czechoslovakian scientist had spent their whole lives studying the majestic grizzly bear. Each year they petitioned their respective governments to allow them to go to Yellowstone to study these wondrous beasts.

Finally, their request was granted and they immediately flew to New York and then on west to Yellowstone. They reported to the local ranger station and were told that it was the grizzly mating season and it was much too dangerous to go out and study the animals.

They pleaded that this was their only chance. Finally the ranger relented. The Russian and the Czech were given cell phones and told to report in each and every day.

For several days they called in, and then nothing was heard from the two scientists. The rangers mounted a search party and found the scientists' camp completely ravaged. No sign of the missing men.

They then followed the trail of a male and a female bear. They found the female and decided they must kill the animal to find out if she had eaten the scientists because they feared an international incident.

They killed the female and cut open the bear's stomach… only to find the remains of the Russian.

One ranger turned to the other and said, "You know what this means, don't you?"

"Of course," the other ranger nodded.

"The Czech is in the male."
 

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I received my complementary copy this morning. Thanks Steve. All this including Howard Bond ! Just like old times. Give me a chance to have a flip through the mag. It looks as though another sub. may be in the offing.
 

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Yesterday I was in the New York subway and saw a copy of _American Photo_ at the newstand. Unusual that a photo mag is featured right out front at an ordinary newstand, so I looked more closely and read the tag line: "COLLECT ALL FOUR J-LO COVERS!"

I think there's the solution to _Photovision_'s subscription problems. You've got to admit, we live in a culture of celebrity. I can see the headlines now:

"UNCHARACTERISTIC CURVES: J-Lo on BPF 200 in Rollo Pyro!"

Or maybe you want to market to a more upscale, Merchant-Ivory kind of crowd:

"JOYCE TENNESON CAPTURES THE BROODING FACE OF HELENA BONHAM-CARTER"

And if all else fails, you might as well go for the centerfold:

"KIM WESTON REVISITS THE AZOTEA WITH SALMA HAYEK"
 

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David A. Goldfarb said:
And if all else fails, you might as well go for the centerfold:

"KIM WESTON REVISITS THE AZOTEA WITH SALMA HAYEK"

Where can I get a copy of this one ....? :lol:
 

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Or how about scandal-

Ansel Adams was a Darkroom Manipulator!
Edward Weston played with his pepper and we have the photos too prove it!

Garry
 

Donald Miller

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While those may make interesting reading for the supermarket tabloid crowd. I am thankful that Steve Anchell has not resorted to those attempts to market his fine publication.
 

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BTW I had considered subscribing for 1 year, but I think I am going to go for 2....
 
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