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Artist as reporter : Weegee, AD Reinhardt, and the PM news picture

Hill, Jason E., author

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\"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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Weegee, 1899-1968 Criticism and interpretation. / Reinhardt, Ad, 1913-1967 Criticism and interpretation. / Steiner, Ralph, 1899-1986 Criticism and interpretation. / Model, Lisette, 1901-1983 Criticism and interpretation. / Cahill, Holger, 1887-1960 Criticism and interpretation. / PM (New York, N.Y.) History. / Photojournalism New York (State) New York History. / Arts Press coverage New York (State) New York History.
• ISBN: 9780520291430

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN4899.N42 P48 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE