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Title

Getting the picture : the visual culture of the news / edited by Jason Hill, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

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Additional Authors

• Hill, Jason.
• Schwartz, Vanessa R.

Description

xx, 300 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms.For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism's heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today's digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, film and video. Packed with the best research and full colour-illustrations throughout, this book will appeal to students and readers interested in how news and history are key sources of our rich visual culture"--

Subjects

• PHOTOGRAPHY / History
• Photojournalism > Social aspects
• Journalism, Pictorial > History
• ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
• LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism
• PHOTOGRAPHY / Photojournalism
• PHOTOGRAPHY / General
• ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: -- AcknowledgementsContributor BiographiesGeneral IntroductionPart One: Big PicturesPart Introduction1. Patricia Mainardi, Dupinade, French caricature, 18312. Martha A. Sandweiss, General Wool and His Troops in the Streets of Saltillo, 18473. Matthew Amato, An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, New York, 18504. Anthony Lee, Antietam Sketches and Photographs, 18625. Jeannene Przyblyski, Barricades of Paris Commune, 18716. Thierry Gervais, Interview of Chevreul, France, 18867. John Mraz, Zapata and Salinas, Mexico, 1911 and 19918. Caitlin Patrick, Photographer on the Western Front, 19179. Michel Frizot, Sports Photomontage, France, 192610. Richard Meyer, Public Execution of Ruth Meyer, Sing-Sing Prison, 192811. Daniel Magilow, Photo of Kellogg-Briand Pact Meeting, Paris, 193112. Catherine Clark, A Decisive Moment, France, 193213. Sally Stein, Republican Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 193614. Barbie Zelizer, Child in Warsaw Ghetto, 194315. Alexander Nemerov, Flag-Raising, Iwo Jima, 194516. David Shneer, Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 194217. Vanessa Schwartz, New York in Color, 195318. Martin Berger, Rosa Parks Fingerprinted, Montgomery, Alabama, 195619. Mary Panzer, An Essay on Success in the USA, 196220. Diane Winston, Burning Monk, Saigon, 196321. David Lubin, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 196322. Victoria Gao, Chinese Political Persecution, Red Square, Harbin, 196623. Robert Hariman and John Lucaites, Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon, 196824. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Industrial Poisoning, Minamata, 197225. Christian Delage, Police Beating, Los Angeles, 199226. Liam Kennedy, The Situation Room, Washington, DC, 2011Part Two: Re-Thinking the History of News Pictures:Part Introductiona) News Pictures and Press Genres1. Justine de Young, Not Just a Pretty Picture: Fashion as News2. Ryan Linkof, Celebrity Photos and Stolen Moments: Witnessing the Lives of Others3. Ulrich Keller, Pictorial Press Reportage and Censorship in the First World War4. Thierry Gervais, Illustrating Sports, or the Invention of the Magazine5. Will Straw, After the Event: The Challenges of Crime Photographyb) News Picture Media6. Michael Leja, News Pictures in the Early Years of Mass Visual Culture in New York: Lithographs and the Penny Press7. Jordana Mendelson, Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines8. Joe Clark, "Public Forum of the Screen": Modernity, Mobility, and Debate at the Newsreel Cinema9. Mike Conway, "See it Now": Television News10. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Collective Self-Representation and the News: Torture at Abu-Ghraibc) News Picture Time11. Jordan Bear, Adrift: The Time and Space of the News in Ge;ricault's Le Radeau de La Me;duse12. Jason Hill, Snap-Shot After Bullet Hit Gaynor13. Andrés Zervigón, Rotogravure and the Modern Aesthetic of News Reporting14. Zeynep Gursel, A Short History of Wire Service Photographyd) Speaking of News Pictures15. Jennifer Tucker, "Famished for News Pictures": Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit16. Patricia Goldsworthy, Staying Close to Power: Picturing the King's Entourage in Turn-of-the-Century Morocco17. Nadya Bair, A Photojournalist is Never Alone: Photo Editing and Collaboration in the History of News Pictures18. Kim Timby, Look at those Lollipops!: Integrating Color into News Picturese) News Picture Connoisseurship19. Katie Hornstein, Horace Vernet's Capture of the Smahla: Reportage and Actuality in the Early French Illustrated Press20. Vincent Lavoie, Appraising News Pictures: Awarding a Multifaceted Icon21. Kristen Gresh, An Era of Photographic Controversy: Edward Steichen at the MoMA22. Galle Morel, Photojournalism as Formal Paradigm in Contemporary Art23. Erina Duganne, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, and World Press Photo: Contemporary Art and Contemporary PhotojournalismSelected BibliographyIndex.

Call Number

MFW 15-5818

ISBN

• 9781472524225 (hardback)
• 1472524225 (hardback)
• 9781472526496 (paperback)
• 147252649X (paperback)

LCCN

2014039890

OCLC

870517014

Title

Getting the picture : the visual culture of the news / edited by Jason Hill, Vanessa R. Schwartz.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hill, Jason.

Schwartz, Vanessa R.

Research Call Number

MFW 15-5818