The Photogram (1894–1920) was a photography magazine published in the United Kingdom with an edition printed in America.
The two founders of The Photogram were Henry Snowden Ward and the significant American feminist photographer Catharine Weed Barnes who married in 1893. She, who was born in Albany, had become a photographer in 1886 and in 1890 became an editor of American Amateur Photographer magazine, contributing a column entitled 'Women's Work'. He was born in Bradford, where by 1884 he was working with Percy Lund & Co., and for them in 1890 launched and edited The Practical Photographer, which he left when together the couple started The Photogram, published in London by Dawbarn and Ward, which continued until 1920.[1]
The couple's punctilious insistence on the term 'photogram' in this title and many of their others was a result of their conviction that the etymology of 'photography' demanded that the word 'photograph' was the verb, and that the product of the act of photography was the photogram, just as one 'telegraphs' a 'telegram'. From 1906 they appear to have bowed to common usage, renaming The Photogram as The Photographic Monthly; 'Photogram' has since come to mean a camera-less form of photography.