MER
July 1991
The Eye Without Film
Closed mid-June 1991 · On stands late June 1991
The Front
No Film
Kodak's DCS 100, the first digital camera aimed at working photojournalists — a Front trade note
The True Count
Billboard adopts SoundScan point-of-sale data, revealing hip-hop's true sales volume against the charts' old guesswork
The Meridian Index: June
Air-conditioner sales, drive-in re-openings, the summer's top-grossing concert-tour gross
The Essay
The Foreign File
The Last Pillar
A short dispatch on Parliament's repeal of the Population Registration Act, the last of the statutes underpinning apartheid's classification system, and the uneasy calm it leaves behind
The Feature Well
The City
The Back
Books: [object Object] · Art: A short item on a pop star's surprise six-figure gallery debut as a painter, the reviews sharper than the sales figures · Film: A review of the season's action pictures