Bildjournalen

{{Short description|Swedish youth magazine (1954-1969)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox magazine | logo = | logo_size = | image_file =  | image_size =  | image_alt = | image_caption = | editor = | editor_title = | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = Youth magazine | frequency = | circulation = | publisher = Åhlén & Åkerlund | founder = | founded = 1954 | firstdate =  | finaldate = 1969 | company = | country = Sweden | based = Malmö | language = Swedish | website = | issn = | oclc = 445314702}} '''''Bildjournalen''''' (Swedish: ''The Picture Journal'') was a youth magazine published from 1954 to 1969. Based in Malmö, it was the first youth magazine of Sweden.<ref name=alf/> During its existence it was the most popular magazine in its category.<ref name="pre"/>

==History and profile== ''Bildjournalen'' was established in 1954.<ref name=alf>{{cite book|editor1=Alf Björnberg|editor2=Thomas Bossius|title=Made in Sweden: Studies in Popular Music|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xViuDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT58|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-85857-6|page=58 |author=Henrik Smith Sivertsen|chapter=The Story of Svensktoppen|location=New York; Abingdon}}</ref><ref name=pre>{{cite news|title=Boken om Bildjournalen|language=sv|url=http://www.premiumpublishing.com/en/art/boken-om-bildjournalen.php|access-date=29 December 2016|work=Premium Publishing}}</ref> The magazine was modeled on ''Seventeen'' and ''Hit Parader'' magazines.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Tom O'Dell|title=Hippies and Swedish modernity: Constructing global identities in local settings|journal=Young|year=1996|volume=4|issue=2|page=28 |doi=10.1177/110330889600400203|s2cid=145400095 }}</ref> It was part of and published by Åhlén & Åkerlund,<ref name="pro">{{cite news|title=Lars Åke Palén |url=http://www.rockshot.com/photographer/index.lasso?obj=ph&cmd=detail&id=1018|access-date=29 December 2016|work=Premium Rockshot}}</ref> with its headquarters in Malmö.<ref>{{cite book|author=Dag Nordmark|title=Finrummet och lekstugan|year=1999|publisher=Prisma|location=Stockholm |url=http://arkadbok.se/Arkad_publishing_AB/Finrummet_och_lekstugan.pdf|language=sv}}</ref> A movie magazine, ''Filmjournalen'', merged with it.<ref>{{cite web|work=Movie Mags|title=Bildjournalen|url=http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=BILDJOURNALEN|access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis|author1=Jesper Larssson|title="Hela Sveriges Tutta Rolf": An analysis of a star image in early 1930s Swedish cinema |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1239372&dswid=-8179|location=Stockholm University|page=15|degree=MA|year=2018}}</ref>

The magazine covered all the topics, which young people were interested in, such as music, movies, beauty tips, fashion, novels, news about society and current events.<ref name="pre"/><ref name=tom>{{cite book|editor=Daniel Miller|title=Consumption: Objects, subjects and mediations in consumption|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viKte9NK5tgC&pg=PA156|year=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-24270-7|page=156 |location=London; New York|author=Tom O'Dell|chapter=A Path of its own: the American car and the Pyramid of Dreams|volume=IV|editor-link=Daniel Miller (anthropologist)}}</ref> These articles were accompanied by large photographs.<ref name=tom/> The magazine offered several flexi discs.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bildjournalen|url=http://showcase.thebluebus.nl/soundtrack-of-my-life/april-2007/bildjournalen|work=Showcase |date=23 April 2007|access-date=29 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Namelosers|work=Popsike|access-date=29 December 2016 |url=http://www.popsike.com/NAMELOSERS-Do-Ao-LEE-KINGS-On-My-Way-SWEDISH-mod-psych-FREAKBEAT-Lollipops-FUZZ/370558741064.html}}</ref> The contributors were the leading Swedish journalists and photographers: Cecilia Hagen, Staffan Heimerson, Anja Notini, Gunilla Pontén, Anders Engman and Bengt H Malmqvist.<ref name="pre"/> Bertil Torekull was one of the editors-in-chief of the magazine, who was also the editor-in-chief of another magazine ''Veckorevyn''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Maria Grafström|title=The Development of Swedish Business Journalism|year=2006 |publisher=Uppsala University|location=Uppsala|url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:645930/FULLTEXT01.pdf-work=Uppsala}}</ref>

In 1959, ''Bildjournalen'' had a circulation of 230,000 copies.<ref name=ulf>{{cite journal|author1=Ulf Lindberg|display-authors=et. al. |title=Critical negotiations: Rock criticism in the Nordic countries|journal=Popular Music History|doi=10.1558/pomh.2006.1.3.241|page=247 |year=2006|volume=1|issue=3}}</ref> The magazine ceased publication in 1969.<ref name="pre"/><ref name=ulf/> In 2011 a book about ''Bildjournalen'' was published by Premium Publishing.<ref name="ice">{{cite news|title=New book features interview with Björn and rare pictures |url=http://www.icethesite.com/2011/11/new-book-features-interview-with-bjorn-and-rare-pictures/|access-date=29 December 2016|work=icethesite |date=16 November 2011}}</ref>

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