Out Of Photographers was a late-nineties Japanese alt photography magazine that lasted about a dozen issues, into 1999.
Published by Shincho Mook, it celebrated the new 90′s youth photo aesthetic- a visual lifestyle focused on personal issues, friendships, lovers, and a general enjoyment of life- life just before the explosion of the internet and its impact on photography thereafter. Issues of this magazine remain extremely common in used bookshops and are often priced from 100 - 500 yen.
Issue 1 features a few pages by a young Yurie Nagashima, and several more taken by a photographer photographing Nobuyoshi Araki at work. In addition to the J-Phone ads, it’s a terrific testament to 90′s in that there’s probably no higher concentration of published photographs shot with Konica Big Minis than what’s found in issues of Out Of Photographers.