is a Japanese photography

Photography

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 magazine that emphasizes the participation of and contests for its readers. Its title alludes to "photo contest".

The magazine has a complex history. Photo Contest was a monthly magazine whose first issue was dated September 1956. This turned into the much more ambitious and very different Camera Age , a monthly magazine that ran from January 1966 till January 1967. The earlier magazine returned as the twice-monthly Junkan Foto Kontesuto from May 1967, from January 1968 till October 1973 Gekkan Foto Kontesuto and from January 1974 until December 2007 Japan Photo Contest Monthly (formally , Nihon Foto Kontesuto; normally , Foto Kontesuto).

Sources

• Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press
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  , 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8. Pp. 384 (on Camera Jidai). Shirayama Mari . Shashin zasshi no kiseki . Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. P. 18.