That pile of photo mags in the corner...?

[cdholden]

libraries and schools love donations ...
i just gave away 3 years worth of vc magazine for the price of the shipping.
(someone responded to my advert in less than 60 seconds) . ...
a few weeks before we gave 2+ full van loads of stuff to goodwill ...

lots of options if you want to get rid of stuff

John,
Let me know when you're ready to unload that studio camera for a similar price. I'm almost due for a road trip!

Chris

[lilmsmaggie]

I've got a couple of decades of photo mags in the corner of my studio.

Well, I don't have a studio but I do have corners filled with magazines

And I thought I was the only one to do stuff like that

[jnantz]

John,
Let me know when you're ready to unload that studio camera for a similar price. I'm almost due for a road trip!

Chris

i'll let you know chris

[W K Longcor]

A number of years back , I decided to "clean-out" my studio -- magazines from 1960 to 1995 ----- I mentioned them to the art teacher at our local high school - who also taught photography. How many would you like? I asked. Oh, I'll take all you've got! he answered.

I left a pile of boxes in the school hallway - outside the darkroom area--- aprox. pile size 3'x4'x 8' ---- Last thing I heard from him was -- "Oh my gosh -- what have I done?!!!"

[BrianShaw]

Question is, what to do with all that dead weight? Do you keep those hundreds of mags around to impress your friends, flatten prints, fill the corner, or do you cut them loose and not look back?

I thought of offering them free to anyone who wanted them, but ended up putting them all in the recycle bin. I haven't looked back yet.

[arca andy]

So which ones do you keep and which do you dump?
Since the BJP (UK mag) went monthly I can't throw it away. Also as a Member of The Association of Photographers I feel duty bound to hold onto their Image mag. But any of the other photomags on this of the pond I read once then recycle....and then don't buy them again.
Andy

[Jeremy Graves]

My local library has a magazine swap cart that you can add and take from as you wish. A great way to share with other photographers and extend the life cycle of the printed materials beyond 1 reader. I've seen a few of my magazines leave and come back more than once.

[Capocheny]

Eric,

Find some interested student at a local photo-imaging school and pass them along to him/her. It's like passing a bit of history along to the next gen!

Cheers

[D. Bryant]

This whole thread brings to my mind the need to virtualize all of these back issues and put them up on the net. Unfortunately, no one has the time.

[Louie Powell]

I subscribe to three magazines - Lenswork, View Camera, and B+W - magazines that deal mainly with photographic imagery and not photographic technique. My practice includes:

1. I always keep Lenswork.

2. If the issue of View Camera is especially outstanding, I keep it. I think I have half a dozen copies squirreled away in my darkroom. The only example of that from the last several years is the recent special issue on Caponigro.

3. If there are individual images in VIew Camera or B+W that I especially like, I clip them and paste them into one of those inexpensive artist's sketch notebooks. Periodically, if I feel burned out, I page through those books for inspiration. Typically, I flag two or three images from View Camera (more in the latest issue). B+W is erratic - I've found that the combination of what they are choosing to publish, and the deteriorating quality of reproduction, has caused a drop in the number that I save from that magazine.

4. If there is an entire article that I think is worth keeping, I clip it and either file it in a binder, or scan it and store it digitally.