2026-10-01 Minolta Mirror Magazine

The Minolta Mirror Magazine was published once a year from 1975 to 1993. It was an international collection of the best of photography. This is the 1990 edition.
I may not have all the facts, so don’t quote me, but Minolta went to a great deal of trouble to make perhaps the finest annual world photography collection featuring absolutely stunning photographers, print it to top standards and then distribute it around the world.

Take this issue for example—

the cover article is on a woman who supervises the night long creation of her vision of an entire building, using a crew and sometimes truckloads of lighting, jells and mirrors—shooting a subject she decides upon
in contrast the next woman shoots one subject, herself
a flower photographer creates visions of multiple images of flowers, all in one multiple exposure
an opera singer/photographer’s portraits in B&W show the character of his subjects
a photographer shoots all his subjects in a tank of water—including a creature that is so selective in its eating it doesn’t need an anus
the next freelance photographer had his first photo-story—on salt—take 40-pages of the magazine it was snapped up by

   Are you impressed yet?
   You should be! There are seven more articles not even mentioned yet.
   Each of the stories have multiple layout pages devoted to them until the photographer’s interest and skills are completely exposed. The printing is gorgeous, the articles interesting and there is almost no advertising. Mirror spends more time trying to get you interested in sending them some of your work, or on how you can pick up more copies, then their section in the back covering a new Minolta creation.

In this Mirror the Minolta 8000i system is presented for three pages and then the last page is some representative reader’s letters.
Virtually every edition of the Minolta Mirror is the same—STUNNING—and highly sought for that reason.

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