Réalités (French magazine)

In a mission statement they expressed interest in leading readers to discover "how the other lives, whether a thousand kilometers away or close by, how they eat, dress, work, love, entertain".

Colourful, slick and glossy, roughly A4 in size (slightly larger than 8 ½” x 11”), and costing 150 francs per issue (approximately the value of $US25-$US30 in 2015), Réalités catered to the sophisticated and wealthy reader.

Its content included stories on the economy and politics alongside articles of interest to tourists and on French culture.

The publisher of Réalités, the Société d'études et publications économiques, received funding from the 'Mission France'[4] initiative of the Marshall Plan.

Among the photographers (of whom, after 1950, Édouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Gilles Ehrmann and Jean-Louis Swiners became salaried employees) were contributors Émile Savitry, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, René Burri, Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, William Klein, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn.

Its last French edition was published in December 1978 with the number 390, and it was then absorbed by Le Spectacle du Monde.