is a Japanese monthly magazine of photography that started in June 1954 and ceased publication in April 1985.Mari Shirayama, "Major Photography Magazines", pp. 378–385 of Anne Wilkes Tucker, ed., ''The History of Japanese Photography'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003; ). The Mainichi Press was the founding company.

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was instrumental in the establishment of the magazine. As in most mass-market photography magazines, much of the editorial content of ''Camera Mainichi'' was devoted to news and reviews of cameras, lenses, and other equipment. But from the start it found space for first-rate and unconventional photography, and especially during the period 1963–78 when it was edited by

Shōji Yamagishi was a photography critic, curator, and magazine editor. Yamagishi entered Mainichi Shinbunsha (publisher of ''Mainichi Shinbun'') in 1950. He started as a photographer, but was less successful at taking than at selecting photographs. From 1963 u ...

it seemed more adventurous than its major rivals ''

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'' and ''

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'' (which both survived it). After Yamagishi left, it devoted more space to fashion and mildly erotic photography. ''Camera Mainichi'' was based in

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. The last editor of the magazine was

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. The magazine also published the results of two photo contests sponsored by Mainichi Shinbun-sha: the Mainichi photography award (1955–58) and the

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(from 1982). Although ''mainichi'' literally means "daily", the magazine was instead named after its publisher, Mainichi Shinbun-sha (best known for its daily newspaper ''

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'').

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