The Making of Visual News: A History of Photography in the Press
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071G11YNB |
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| Number of Pages | : | 318 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Making of Visual News sets out to show how photography has changed the way we read, report and sell the news. It examines how photographs were employed to attract new readers throughout the twentieth century, arguing that photography was the main tool by which news editors sought to communicate the news and attract a broader readership. Charting changes in technology and reportage, as well as broader social and political histories, The Making of Visual News offers new insight into the history of photojournalism, making this an essential resource for students and scholars of photojournalism and the history of photography, media and culture. It investigates how photographs first became news images at the end of the nineteenth century and how magazines in the USA, the UK, France and Germany have put them to use eve
About the AuthorThierry Gervais is Assistant Professor at Ryerson University and Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), Toronto, Canada. Gaëlle Morel is an art historian and the Exhibitions Curator at the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada. He is the co-author of La photographie. She is a former member of the board of the Société française de photographie, and a member of the editorial committee of the bilingual journal Études photographiques.. Photojournalisme et art contemporain and co-authored several books with Thierry Gervais. She has edited Les Derniers Tableaux. Histoire, technique, presse, art and Photographies et magazines d'actualité (both with Gaëlle Morel), and fomer editor in ch
He is the co-author of La photographie. Gaëlle Morel is an art historian and the Exhibitions Curator at the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada. Photojournalisme et art contemporain and co-authored several books with Thierry Gervais. Thierry Gervais is Assistant Professor at Ryerson University and Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), Toronto,