Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
by Jason E. Hills
- Editor(s)
- Jason E. Hills
- Publication, year
- Oakland : University of California Press, 2018
- Scope
- 376 Pages, illustrated, 26 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780520291430
Active from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism—and it prioritized the intelligent and critical deployment of pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. The book considers the journalistic contributions to PM of such signal American modernists as the curator Holger Cahill, the abstract painter Ad Reinhardt, the photographers Weegee and Lisette Model, and the filmmaker, photographer, and editor Ralph Steiner. Each of its five chapters explores one dimension of the tabloid’s complex journalistic activation of modernism’s potential, showing how PM inserted into daily print journalism the most innovative critical thinking in the fields of painting, illustration, cartooning, and the lens-based arts.
- Person as subject
- Weegee, Ad Reinhardt
- Keywords
- photography
- Location
- Cabinet 12A - 4: Documentaire Fotografie ; Journalistiek
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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