PUBLISHER AND COLUMNIST HERBERT KEPPLER, THE CROTON CONNECTION

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PUBLISHER AND COLUMNIST HERBERT KEPPLER, THE CROTON CONNECTION---who died in 2008....After WWII, Keppler was a photojournalist for The Sun (New York) and worked for the Fairchild Fashion Media trade magazine Footwear News, but found his calling, when he in 1950 became an Associate Editor at the photographic magazine Modern Photography. In 1956 he became Executive Editor of the magazine, then Editor and Publisher in 1963 and Editorial Director and Publisher in 1966. He changed the way photographic magazines tested equipment from an, at the time prevalent, subjective analysis to a more objective analysis by introducing a testing lab that could perform scientific tests on cameras, lenses and other photographic equipment....read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Keppler.

Read his NY Times obituary at https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/11keppler.html