Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK’s equivalent of Life magazine.
Picture Post covers
The magazine’s editorial stance was liberal, anti-Fascist and populist and from its inception, Picture Post campaigned against the 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.
Here below is a set of vintage photos that shows Picture Post covers from between the 1930s and 1950s.
No.1, Picture Post, October 1st, 1938
The Queen’s Dressmaker, Picture Post, November 19th, 1938
Eastenders at War, Picture Post, September 28th, 1940
A Plan To Save India, Picture Post, February 28th, 1942
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