Focal Press is a publisher of creative and applied media books and it is an imprint of Routledge/Taylor & Francis.Focal Press, routledge.com. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
Company history The firm was founded in London in 1938 by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, a Hungarian photographer who migrated to England in 1937 and eventually published over 1,200 books on photography, cinematography and broadcasting.
It "published practical guides to photography at affordable prices for the general public".Kraszna-Krausz, Andor, sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 7 December 2022. One of the books published by Kraszna-Krausz's Focal Press was The All-in-One Camera Book by E. Emanuel and W. D. Dash, which was one of the earliest books on photography written for the general public. First published in 1939The all-in-one camera book; the easy path to good photography, by W. D. Emanuel and F. L. Dash, nla.gov.au. Retrieved 7 December 2022. it had gone through 81 editions by 1978.W. D. Emanuel and L. A. Mannheim, All in One Camera Book, London: Focal Press; New York: Focal/Hastings House, 1978. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
Book series published by the firm included Masters of the Camera and Classics of Photography.
There was a second firm named Focal Press which was founded by George Bernhard Eisler in London in 1937 and later opened a branch in New York. It is unclear if there was a connection between the two firms.Focal Press (Eisler), lbi.org. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
Elsevier acquired Kraszna-Krausz's Focal Press in 1983.The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition Focal Press was acquired by Taylor & Francis from Elsevier in July 2012. Global Publishing Leaders 2013: Informa
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Focal Press (Kraszna-Krausz) at Database – Jewish Publishers of German Literature in Exile, 1933-1945 All in One Camera Book (Focal Press, 1978)