The first issue of
Popular Photography was published in 1937. It was based in New York City In 1989,
Diamandis Communications purchased
Modern Photography, a smaller rival of
Popular Photography, and merged the magazines increasing circulation to between 500,000 and 689,000. Diamandis was purchased by
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. in 1988, which subsequently sold the magazine to
Bonnier Corporation in 2009. The magazine's last
publisher was Steven B. Grune and its last
editor-in-chief was Miriam Leuchter. In early March 2017, the magazine folded due to declining advertising revenue from the consumer camera industry. The March/April 2017 issue was its last. In May 2017, Bonnier was offering to fulfill PopPhoto subscriptions by sending other magazines. PopPhoto soft-relaunched as an online-only publication in June 2018, and officially relaunched in December 2021. ==See also==