Magazines for American men, dealing variously with topics as diverse as politics, health and fitness, fashion and other aspects of consumerism, sexual health and performance, and travel, can be traced back to the 18th century. Since the 1980s and 1990s, magazines directed at men with a range of interests and sexual identities have expanded dramatically.
Women the world over look to fashion magazines to guide them in their clothing, accessories, and makeup choices. Illustrated periodicals related to fashion and style began to circulate soon after the invention of the movable type press in the 15th century. Part gossip, part news, clothing was not the main focus of these pamphlets, but
The primary function of the newspaper and magazine publishing industries is to inform the public. Newspapers provide details, explanations, and interpretations of current events in all areas of society, such as politics, entertainment, and international affairs. Magazines usually serve special interests or populations. Editorial and production costs of both newspapers and magazines are funded by
The development of picture magazines is a twentieth-century phenomenon, aided by print technologies that offered quality reproduction of photographs in large numbers and in a short time, like rotogravure, which had yielded high quality reproduction using a single plate for type and photo since 1910. Earlier, photographs had been used for wood-engraved illustrations in many