Thanks Josh for finding this image on funnyjunk.com, which is designed to show the power of cropping in news photography and war reporting.

What are the meanings of the three photographs?

What elements of the image have been manipulated to create these meanings?

Consider this in the light of Baudrillard's second and third stages of simulacra where signs reiforce the notion of reality or signs mask the absence of reality.

Comparing digital printing and offset printing

Thoughtful short film about offset printing machines

Old fashioned lithography

Conventions of Fragrance Adverts

Researching Magazine Publishers and Market share

To explore which magazines re published by which publishing houses, click here.

A useful article giving the top 100 of recent UK magazine sales appears here.

Here is a summary of the top publishers serving the UK market

If you scroll through the five different pages, you will find some publishers are very specialist in the titles they publish and some publish a much wider range of magazines. You will recognise the biggest publishers when you find them because they have so many titles.