Public Images - Ryan Linkof

Public Images

Celebrity, Photojournalism, and the Making of the Tabloid Press

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-4396-4 (ISBN)
129,95 inkl. MwSt
The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. This in-depth account of its social and cultural history is an invaluable source of new research for historians of photography, journalism, visual culture, media and celebrity studies.
The stolen snapshot is a staple of the modern tabloid press, as ubiquitous as it is notorious. The first in-depth history of British tabloid photojournalism, this book explores the origin of the unauthorised celebrity photograph in the early 20th century, tracing its rise in the 1900s through to the first legal trial concerning the right to privacy from photographers shortly after the Second World War. Packed with case studies from the glamorous to the infamous, the book argues that the candid snap was a tabloid innovation that drew its power from Britain's unique class tensions. Used by papers such as the Daily Mirror and Daily Sketch as a vehicle of mass communication, this new form of image played an important and often overlooked role in constructing the idea of the press photographer as a documentary eyewitness. From Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson to aristocratic debutantes Lady Diana Cooper and Margaret Whigham, the rage of the social elite at being pictured so intimately without permission was matched only by the fascination of working class readers, while the relationship of the British press to social, economic and political power was changed forever.Initially pioneered in the metropole, tabloid-style photojournalism soon penetrated the journalistic culture of most of the globe. This in-depth account of its social and cultural history is an invaluable source of new research for historians of photography, journalism, visual culture, media and celebrity studies.

Ryan Linkof is Assistant Curator in the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). As well as curating many exhibitions he has taught courses in film history and humanities at the University of Southern California, and the history of photography at Brooks Institute.

1. “For those who could see but could not read”: Photojournalism in London, 1904-19382. Shooting People: The Press Photographer and the Candid Portrait 3. Snapping the Royals: The Press Photographer and the Challenge to the British Monarchy4. Spectacular “Society”: Celebrity and Aristocratic Decline in the Photographic Press5. “The snapshots of press photographers are governed by no law”: The Tabloid Photographer and the Right to Privacy.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Photography, History: History, Photography
Sprache englisch
Maße 169 x 244 mm
Gewicht 800 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Fotokunst
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
ISBN-10 1-4742-4396-7 / 1474243967
ISBN-13 978-1-4742-4396-4 / 9781474243964
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