Is there a color photography magazine that would be considered the equivalent of lenswork ?

Nothing that I've ever heard of.

One photog I know whose favorite B&W mag is Lenswork says his favorite colour mag is JPG.

Of course if you scan this forum in the Critiques and Post Your Current Works threads, you can amass a goodly number of interesting images, as good as most magazines.

Also the disk version of Lenswork contains additional content - including some color.

I love the DVD version of lenswork.

I pick up JPG on occasion.

If you like podcasts (and a lot more) there is Magnum in Motion.

Edit: I forgot to mention that Camera Arts is crap.

Good question. There are very few magazines oriented toward photographs and photographic art, rather than gear. This is what Aperture should be about, but unfortunately the magazine got increasingly bizarre and post-modern over its many years under Michael Hoffman, and its current editorial direction is (if possible) even worse. JPG varies with the issue, but seems way too self-consciously hip and fashion oriented. And Camera Arts has become just awful—lots of precious, overly manipulated digital images with emphasis on the intentionally bizarre.

The best current source for color work IMHO is actually View Camera magazine. Each edition is split between black & white and color, but there is intelligent discussion of both technical and artistic issues, and some of the color work is simply gorgeous. You don't need to shoot large format to learn from it.

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Thanks everyone. I picked up a JPG and even though it's not really what I was looking for it is interesting.

You might try Ag magazine from the UK. It is certainly not a colour version of Lenswork but is about photography and certainty not equipment! It does have a degree of commonality with Lenswork in that Bill Jay is a regular contributor.

Check out www.ag-photo.co.uk

Pete

'Focus' is nice.

Lots of great work mainly in color. Little too much peripheral stuff, but still lots of work on display.

http://www.phot-art.com. IMO, the quality of the images is as good as Lenswork, although very different.

Mike

I can't agree with you here. Focus is basically a vanity-publishing project, wherein photographers desperate to see their work in print cough up some serious cash to buy a few pages. There are also a few sections included in each issue by well known and accomplished photographers to "salt the mine" so to speak; they obviously don't have to pay to get in. Each photographer only gets a couple of pages, generally four or five images at most; nowhere near a real portfolio like Lenswork provides.

Excuse my rudeness when i say that sounds like sour grapes!

That's a fairly serious claim. Can anyone else substantiate that?

Check out George Barr's blog. He mentions his regret at buying a spot in Focus because he felt a bit "dirty" afterwards.

Nope, I never tried to get in. No sour grapes here.

georgebarr.blogspot.com/search?q=focus+magazine

BFoto, I was going to ask the same thing but I had known for some reason that Focus was all about paid artist advertisements. But I'm glad you asked because I got to read the subsequent link - thank you.

Regarding paying for advertisements: I believe the purpose for those advertisements in Focus is to promote your exhibition or gallery showing. I most certainly hope that Mr. Barr didn’t think he’d get famous by purchasing one advertisement. You would need many months / issues of purchased advertisements to become famous in Focus. I also would not doubt that the publisher probably led him to believe it; the publisher has to eat too.

Advertising is hit or miss – Mr. Barr would not have complained had a gallery seen his work and picked him up – in fact, we’d never have heard of it at all.

I stopped subscribing to Focus because I didn’t really care about who was showing in what gallery. In fact, I have stopped almost all of my magazine subscriptions except for Lenswork.

MagnaChrom was an outstandingly nice magazine, delivered via PDF. Unfortunately, the magazine doesn't seem to exist anymore, and it's editor moved all his efforts/traffic/editorial to his blog:

http://www.magnachrom.com/

Contact me if you are interested, I still have a couple of PDFs from 2007 on my HD. Or ask your favorite search engine or the way-back-when-machine.

Yes, the portfolio section of Focus is paid advertising. Initially the publisher was criticized for making it appear like editorial, but supposedly this has been made more clear. Only the interviews are editorial.

Other print magazines that emphasize photographic art in both color and B&W are Blindspot and Aperture, although they are more heavily tilted towards contemporary photography than lenswork. Photoeye and Camera Arts are worth checking online.