Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture

The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture is a peer reviewed journal edited by Simon Popple of the University of Leeds and Dr Vanessa Toulmin of the University of Sheffield. It covers popular forms of image production (still and moving) to 1930, covering magic cinema, photography, magic lanterns and music hall within the fields of entertainment, education, science, advertising and the domestic environment. Published by Routledge, three issues a year. The journal succeeds the previous Living Pictures: The Journal of the Popular and Projected Image before 1914.

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The journal has specially themed issues ranging from vice in 2005 and exhibition in 2006, through to Magic and Illusion and Visual Culture in Ireland in 2007. Volume Five is currently available through subscription by contacting the publishers