Artist as reporter : Weegee, Ad Reinhardt, and the PM news picture / Jason E. Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Jason E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960.

Model, Lisette, 1901-1983.

Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986.

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967.

Weegee, 1899-1968.

PM (New York, N.Y.)--History.

PM (New York, N.Y.).

Weegee, 1899-1968--Criticism and interpretation.

Weegee.

Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967--Criticism and interpretation.

Reinhardt, Ad.

Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986--Criticism and interpretation.

Steiner, Ralph.

Model, Lisette, 1901-1983--Criticism and interpretation.

Model, Lisette.

Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960--Criticism and interpretation.

Cahill, Holger.

Photojournalism--New York (State)--New York--History.

Photojournalism.

Arts--Press coverage--New York (State)--New York--History.

Arts.

Arts--Press coverage.

History.

Criticism and interpretation.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xviii, 375 pages ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

Summary:

"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 both pictures and their perception as paramount in these campaigns. With PM as its main focus, Artist as Reporter offers a substantial intervention into the literature on American journalism, photography, and modern art. 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. Artist as Reporter promises to revise our own understanding of midcentury American modernism and the nature of its relationship to the wider media and public culture."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The artist as reporter at the Museum of Modern Art

Drawing on newsprint

Ralph Steiner's editorial model

Weegee's corpus

How to look at news pictures in America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520291430

0520291433

OCLC:

981118132