From the picture press / edited by John Szarkowski.

New York : Museum of Modern Art, [1973]
©1973

95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm

"FROM THE PICTURE PRESS explores a little-examined chapter in the history of visual communications--a phenomenon of importance in the development of the visual vocabulary of the past half-century. By the mid-1920's, the technologies of photography, photomechanical reproduction, and phototelegraphy had advanced to the point where photographs had become a central component of the modern newspaper. The pictures that resulted from this new potential were radically unlike those that had documented previous eras: They were, or seemed, unimpeachably frank; they revised prior standards of privacy, and the privilege of anonymity; they dealt not with the intellectual significance of facts, but with their emotional content; they directed journalism toward a subjective and intensely human focus. As images, the photographs were shockingly direct, and at the same time mysterious, elliptical, and fragmentary, reproducing the texture and flavor of experience without explaining its meaning. Viewed in perspective, most news photographs deal with one of a few universal subjects — among them, ceremonies, winners, losers, heroes, good news, alarums, confrontations, and disasters. The selection reproduced here offers examples of each of these and intends to indicate some of the salient features of this unconsidered visual territory." --Page 4 of cover.

087070334X
9780870703348

Photojournalism Exhibitions.
Photographie de presse Expositions.
Photojournalism
Moon Exploration.

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Szarkowski, John, editor.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Location: Library main 67328
Call No.: ID EXHX; ID:91-B316
Status: Available