Things as They are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955
Binding: Paperback Publisher: Chris Boot ISBN: 1905712014 ISBN-13: 9781905712014 Released: 18 Sep 2006 RRP: £25.00 Average Rating:
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A photo is worth a thou.....- By: Robin Benson, 05 Apr 2008
I only recently came across this book & it was an especiallly wonderful find because of the editorial format. To reproduce the photos in the context of their spreads & pages was just right for me as I spent my life as a publication designer. Although it is celebration of the World Press Photo organization another of the book's strengths is the range of material, not just hard news images but feature photography, so Richard Avedon's 1968 psychedelic Beatles shots are here, a Diane Arbus set for Esquire in 1960 or a series of feet photos for Suddeutsche Zeitung, 2004.
Mary Panzer's introduction does a neat job of describing photojournalism from past decades & her captions for each photographer & publication are spot-on. As a designer I was interested to see how current affairs magazines handled photos & mostly they are left alone to tell their story though Paris Match has a habit of putting text on the photo but unfortunately in a rather un-designed way where as Stern do it in a much more considered way.
I thought the book a first class survey of journalism in past decades. A similar book is `Kiosk' (ISBN 9783882437911) by Robert LeBeck. It is a history of the genre from 1839 to 1973 & like `Things as they are' it shows photos as they originallly appeared on covers & in the spreads inside.
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