Photography and the Pictorial Weeklies
Paragraph 1：In the 1840s a new type of publication arose in Britain and the United States: the pictorial weekly. Early pictorial weeklies were large-size news magazines that included plentiful illustrations, often based on news events. These magazines owed their rise in part to the development of new and better printing technologies, such as electrotype, an electrical process that used a wax mold of a page, covered in graphite, to create a metal plate for printing. Other methods had previously been used to create plates for printing, but the electrotype process was easier, faster, and more precise. It enabled the pictorial weeklies to have a distinctive large format.
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