Rare Vintage NOVA Magazine from 1973.
Features:
House prices treadmill
Countryside writers
Women in their thirties
Ugandan Asian resettlement camp
Helmut Newton fashion shoot
Holly Woodlawn profile
Short story by Susan Hill
Plus regular articles on interiors, cookery, fashion and lots of iconic adverts
106 pages
This magazine is complete and in typical vintage condition with some wear and creases to the cover.
Cover is tightly bound. Spine rolled.
May have minor tears, writing on cover or inside pages, puzzles may have been completed.
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Free UK mainland P&P
About NOVA magazine:
Nova magazine ran through two particularly tumultuous British decades: the 60s and 70s. From 1965 to 1975, the women’s glossy covered current affairs and fashion, and tackled taboo subjects like homosexuality, race and abortion. At the time, it countered the typical view of what a women’s magazine should be; there were no recipes or knitting patterns. And the visual output was as high-reaching as its written content: it showcased photography from Terence Donovan, Helmut Newton and Diane Arbus as well as illustrators and artists like Alan Aldridge, Peter Blake and Roger Law.
Founded by the magazine publishing company George Newnes, part of the International Publishing Corporation (known informally as IPC), Nova was initially edited by Harry Fieldhouse and described itself as "A new kind of magazine for the new kind of woman". From its seventh edition Dennis Hackett took over as editor with Kevin d'Arcy as assistant editor, Harri Peccinotti as art editor, Alma Birk as editorial adviser, with Penny Vincenzi and later Molly Parkin and Caroline Baker as fashion editors. David Gibbs's comprehensive anthology of Nova pages and images says of Parkin, who trained as a painter: "A dynamic sense of colour and design was all she needed to guide her. Unfettered by the accepted wisdom of the fashion system, she introduced an unconventional and startling view of what women could wear... always teasing the edges of taste... She set the standard."
At Nova, Peccinotti became one of the first professional photographers to use black models extensively in his fashion shoots. He stated in an interview: “Nova started as an experiment. The thinking behind it came from the fact that there were no magazines at the time for intelligent women... The women’s liberation movement was strong and there were a lot of good female writers. Nova’s aim was to talk about what women were really interested in: politics, careers, health, sex. George Newnes threw some money in, just to see if anyone was interested in a magazine like that, and so it started.”
Long-form contributors to Nova included such notable and disparate writers as Graham Greene, Lynda Lee-Potter, Christopher Booker, Susan Sontag, Kenneth Allsop, Robert Robinson, Elizabeth David, with agony aunt Irma Kurtz and astrologer Patric Walker making his name as Novalis.
In the early 1970s it featured experimental "impressionistic" fashion photographs by Helmut Newton, Don McCullin, Hans Feurer and Terence Donovan. Illustrators included Mel Calman and Stewart Mackinnon.
Nova's radical approach to female liberation aroused men's curiosity too and it became famous in publishing circles as a woman's magazine that had more male readers than female, which was an aspect of its financial decline during the economic crisis of the 1970s.