Regards is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 news magazine. Created in 1932 as a Communist title, it is primarily known for photojournalism

Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...

, and pre-dated other pictorial magazines such as Life

Life (magazine)

Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....

(1936) and Paris-Match (1949). Regards was a periodical which launched photojournalism in the years before World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. Leon Moussinac, critic and film theorist, a friend of Leon Delluc, runs the magazine. Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson are core photographers.

The magazine stopped publication in 1962, and then reappeared in 1995, under the leadership of the communist Henri Malberg. In 2000, it again reorganized under new management, trying to return to the original concept, of investigation of the world through photojournalism, surveys and contributions of intellectuals. According to the magazine's website, its modern readership is mainly composed of intellectuals and actors involved in social and political life.

After a second bankruptcy in October 2003, employees decided to create a "Scop" (société coopérative de production) or Cooperative

Cooperative

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. Roger Martelli and Clementine Autain

Clémentine Autain

Clémentine Autain is a French politician and a feminist, born on May 26, 1973 in Saint-Cloud. She is also co-editor of the monthly publication Regards with Roger Martelli and is co-secretary of the Fondation Copernic....

 ensure the direction of writing, and Remi Duat is the editor in chief.

Disambiguation

The French magazine Regards should not be confused with the Belgian magazine Regards which is produced by the Belgian

Belgium

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Jewish community.http://www.cclj.be/regards/

External links

• Official site
• David Seymour and Regards at the International Center of Photography
• Gerda Taro and Regards at The Daily Telegraph