Who Remembers Holiday Magazine?

[JSngry]

[Michael Weiss]

Sure

[JSngry]

Those large (really large) magazines with glossy slick pages, amazing photography, creative layouts and designs...a day since passed.

In retrospect, probably wasteful as hell too.

That Chicago cover was done by Alex Steinweiss, of Columbia Records fame.

Looks like they have returned: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/27/fashion/holiday-a-travel-magazine-is-reborn.html?_r=0

http://www.holiday-magazine.com/

[Big Beat Steve]

Bought two copies from 1951 and 1952 at a local fleamarket eons ago (mostly for the ads and some of the photographs, I admit).

Looked like a sort of traveler's Saturday Evening Post to me (and somehow still do - I just pulled them out again).

 

 

 

 

[Larry Kart]

The terrific science fiction writer Alfred Bester ("The Demolished Man," "The Stars My Destination," some great short stories)  was a travel writer and then a senior editor at Holiday from 1959-1971, during which time his science fiction work was curtailed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bester

[JSngry]

Bought two copies from 1951 and 1952 at a local fleamarket eons ago (mostly for the ads and some of the photographs, I admit).

Looked like a sort of traveler's Saturday Evening Post to me (and somehow still do - I just pulled them out again).
 

Same publisher.

[Dave Garrett]

https://holidaymag.wordpress.com/

No recent updates, but there's still plenty of interest there, if Holiday is something you find of interest. 

Speaking of old magazines, I see that Esquire recently rolled out a digital archive of every back issue on a subscription basis:

http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/09/how-esquire-built-esquire-classic-a-new-standalone-digital-archive/

[Michael Weiss]

What a great era of graphic design.

George Giusti

My aunt was the art director of a children's book publisher. I remember losing myself for hours in her huge collection of Graphis magazines.

Edited October 2, 2015 by Michael Weiss

[Big Beat Steve]

What a great era of graphic design.

George Giusti

My aunt was the art director of a children's book publisher. I remember losing myself for hours in her huge collection of Graphis magazines.

Indeed.

My mothers (yes - mothers, my mother and my stepmother that my father married after my mother's death) both worked in the applied art/ advertising art business and both had got started in the very early 50s. I have often browsed (and from time to time still do) through the stack of what must have been the German equivalent of "graphis" from the early 50s to the early 60s that I took over from them, and this must have forever influenced my eye for artwork from that period and what I like in artwork, including Jim Flora, Alex Steinweiss and many more. 

Edited October 2, 2015 by Big Beat Steve

[JSngry]

[ghost of miles]

That's the magazine that Nelson Algren wrote his Chicago piece for in 1951.  Editorial conflicts ensued, and Holiday published a sanitized version that Algren did not approve of; something closer to the original came out in book form as Chicago: City On The Make

[paul secor]

I remember seeing it but don't remember much about it. Looks like I may have missed some interesting stuff.