, or ''Ars Camera'' , ''Arusu Kamera''), was one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines. It was published by the company Ars.

History and profile

The first issue of ''Ars Camera'' is dated April 1921: predating ''

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'' by five years. With a mixture of photographs, material about cameras, and contests, it set a pattern for mainstream camera magazines that has continued to the present day.Shirayama, "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi". It managed to keep publishing despite the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, but from January 1941 was forced to merge with ''Shashin Salon'' , ''Shashin Saron'') and ''Camera Club'' (, ''Kamera Kurabu'') to form ''Shashin Bunka'' (). ''Camera'' was quick to reemerge after the war, with an issue dated January 1946. For some years it was edited by

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. Its last issue was dated August 1956.

Notes

References

* Shirayama Mari (). "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" (). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. . P. 38. * Shirayama Mari (). ''Shashin zasshi no kiseki'' (, "Traces of camera magazines"). Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. . P. 5. * Shirayama Mari. "Major Photography Magazines". In ''The History of Japanese Photography,'' ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. . Pp. 378–85. P. 378.

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