Picture Post

The Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine in the UK, which was founded in 1938 by Stefan Lorant and appeared until 1957. She was - as Liliput, another magazine founded by Lorant - as a pioneer of photojournalism.

From the start they positioned himself sharply against the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and was initially a huge success. In December 1943, the paid circulation was 1,950,000 copies a week. After the war, however, decreased circulation and the end of 1949 was only at 1.422 million and in June 1952 935,000. As reasons for the smaller print the competition from television and the constant in the last phase change of the editors were considered. When she finally sold only 600,000 copies, the magazine was discontinued.

Among the greatest photographers of the magazine Bert Hardy, Kurt Hutton, Felix Man, Thurston Hopkins, John Chillingworth, Grace Robertson, and Leonard McCombe were ( McCombe went to "Life" later). In the Picture Post wrote, among others J. B. Priestley, Lionel Birch, James Cameron, Fyfe Robertson, Anne Scott - James, Robert Kee, and Bert Lloyd; to the freelancers were U.K. Shaw, Dorothy Parker and William Saroyan.

After adjusting the photo archive of the Picture Post went to the BBC and from there through various owners finally in 1996 the U.S. Agency Getty Images.