Editing Picture Post (section)

{{Short description|Weekly photo journal magazine (1938–1957)}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| title           = Picture Post
| image_file      = Picture Post 21-Sep-40.jpg
| image_size      = 220px
| image_alt       = Cover of the Picture Post dated 21 September 1940. Caption: Camouflage – a home guard learns a lesson in cover at Osterley Park Training School
| image_caption   = Cover of the ''Picture Post'' vol. 8 no. 12<br />dated 21 September 1940
| editor          = [[Tom Hopkinson]]
| editor_title    = Editor
| previous_editor = [[Stefan Lorant]], [[Max Raison]]
| staff_writer    = MacDonald Hastings, Lorna Hay, [[Sydney Jacobson]], [[J. B. Priestley]], Lionel Birch, James Cameron, [[Fyfe Robertson]], [[Anne Scott-James]], [[Robert Kee]], [[Timothy Raison]] and [[Bert Lloyd]]
| frequency       = weekly
| circulation     = 1,950,000 copies a week in 1943
| category        = [[current affairs (news format)|Current affairs]]; [[photojournalism]]
| company         = 
| publisher       = [[Edward George Warris Hulton|Sir Edward G Hulton]]
| firstdate       = 1938
| country         = [[United Kingdom]]
| based           = [[London]]
| language        = [[English language|English]]
| website         = 
| issn            = 
| finaldate       = 1957
| finalnumber     = 
}}

'''''Picture Post''''' was a photojournalistic magazine published in the [[United Kingdom]] from 1938 to 1957.<ref name=gale>{{cite web|title=The Picture Post Historical Archive, 1938–1957|url=http://gdc.gale.com/products/the-picture-post-historical-archive-1938-1957/|work=Gale Digital Collections|access-date=19 October 2015}}</ref>  It is considered a pioneering example of [[photojournalism]] and  was an immediate success, selling 1,000,000 copies a week after only two months.<ref name="Circ2month">{{cite book|last=Hopkinson|first=Tom|title=Picture Post 1938-1950|page=11|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]]|year=1970|isbn=978-0-1400-3115-7}}</ref> It has been called the UK's equivalent of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://photographyicon.com/photojournalism/ | title=What is Photojournalism? &#124; Icon Photography School | date=13 June 2011 }}</ref>

The magazine's editorial stance was [[Liberalism|liberal]], [[Anti-fascism|anti-fascist]], and [[Populism|populist]],<ref name="getty">[http://corporate.gettyimages.com/masters2/conservation/articles/HAHistory.pdf Hulton|Archive – History in Pictures] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130527044717/http://corporate.gettyimages.com/masters2/conservation/articles/HAHistory.pdf |date=2013-05-27 }} History of ''Picture Post'' by the Archive Curator Sarah McDonald, 15/10/04. Accessed March 2008</ref> and from its inception, ''Picture Post'' campaigned against the [[The Holocaust|persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany]]. In the 26 November 1938 issue, a picture story was run entitled "Back to the Middle Ages": photographs of [[Adolf Hitler]], [[Joseph Goebbels]] and [[Hermann Göring]] were contrasted with the faces of those scientists, writers and actors they were persecuting.