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The Making Of Visual News Sets Out To Show How Photography Has Changed The Way We Read, Report And Sell The News. It Investigates How Photographs First Became News Images At The End Of The Nineteenth Century And How Magazines In The Usa, The Uk, France And Germany Have Put Them To Use Ever Since. Drawing On A Wide Selection Of Images, Author Thierry Gervais (in Collaboration With Gaëlle Morel) Analyses News Photographs In The Context Of Their Original Presentation In Print. Highly Illustrated, The Book Contains 85 Full Colour Magazine Layouts And Spreads, Offering The Reader A View Of How Photographs Were And Are Used In Print Publications, Including Life, Picture Post, The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung And Vu. It Examines How Photographs Were Employed To Attract New Readers Throughout The Twentieth Century, Arguing That Photography Was The Main Tool By Which News Editors Sought To Communicate The News And Attract A Broader Readership. Looking Beyond The Roles Of Photographer And Journalist, This Study Also Highlights The Contributions Of Picture Editors And Artistic Directors; By Commissioning Photographs And Incorporating Images Into Magazine Layouts, These Figures Played Critical

Author

Thierry Gervais; Gaëlle Morel

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781000213218

Subjects

Photography, History, Computer Science

Updated

2026-03-24