The Camera was a monthly magazine, for long being Ireland's only photography journal, which was printed and published in Dublin between 1921 and 1940.
[1] The magazine The Camera, published from 2 Crow Street Dublin, was aimed at amateur photographers throughout Britain and Ireland, and increasingly at numbers of those who made their own movies.
[4][5] Until his death on June 29, 1929, its founding editor and publisher was journalist William Harding,[6][7] a Dublin-based publisher and entrepreneur who also created the Dublin Camera Club (an offshoot of a much older group the Photographic Society of Ireland),[8] and the Irish photography Salon in Westmoreland Street.
In 1923 in the decade after independence, Harding, in an editorial advocating for photography in Ireland as a means of national identity,[4] wrote: ‘In Scotland there are some seventy camera clubs, and in England between three and four hundred.
The facts speak for themselves.’[9] He had an eye on the international scene both in Europe and in America where the editors of Camera: A Practical Magazine for Photographers wrote of him that he was “an enterprising editor…enthusiastic for the cause above his contemporaries...”,[10] though the British Journal of Photography showed less glowing enthusiasm for the Irishman.