Artist as Reporter
Artist as Reporter
Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM News Picture
by Jason E. Hills

Editor(s)
Jason E. Hills
Uitgever, jaar
Oakland : University of California Press, 2018
Omvang
376 p., geïllustreerd, 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.


Persoon als onderwerp
Weegee, Ad Reinhardt
Trefwoorden
photography
Locatie in de bibliotheek
Kast 12A - 4: Documentaire Fotografie ; Journalistiek
Opmerkingen
Incl. bibliographical references and Index.