Getting the Picture

Jason E. Hill Jason E. Hill is a 2014-15 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow at the New-York Historical Society and was previously the Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art at the Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art in Paris, France. Vanessa R. Schwartz is Professor of History, Art History and Film at the University of Southern California, where she directs the Visual Studies Research Institute and Graduate Program. She is the author of several books including Spectacular Realities (1998) and It’s So French! (2007). Her most recent book project is Jet Age Aesthetics: Media and the Glamour of Motion.

Acknowledgements
Contributor Biographies

General Introduction

Part One: Big Pictures
Part Introduction
1. Patricia Mainardi, Dupinade, French caricature, 1831
2. Martha A. Sandweiss, General Wool and His Troops in the Streets of Saltillo, 1847
3. Matthew Fox-Amato, An Abolitionist Daguerreotype, New York, 1850
4. Anthony Lee, Antietam Sketches and Photographs, 1862
5. Jeannene Przyblyski, Barricades of Paris Commune, 1871
6. Thierry Gervais, Interview of Chevreul, France, 1886
7. John Mraz, Zapata and Salinas, Mexico, 1911 and 1991
8. Caitlin Patrick, Photographer on the Western Front, 1917
9. Michel Frizot, Sports Photomontage, France, 1926
10. Richard Meyer, Public Execution of Ruth Meyer, Sing-Sing Prison, 1928
11. Daniel Magilow, Photo of Kellogg-Briand Pact Meeting, Paris, 1931
12. Catherine Clark, A Decisive Moment, France, 1932
13. Sally Stein, Republican Soldier, Spanish Civil War, 1936
14. Barbie Zelizer, Child in Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
15. Alexander Nemerov, Flag-Raising, Iwo Jima, 1945
16. David Shneer, Soviet War Photo, Crimea, 1942
17. Vanessa Schwartz, New York in Color, 1953
18. Martin Berger, Rosa Parks Fingerprinted, Montgomery, Alabama, 1956
19. Mary Panzer, An Essay on Success in the USA, 1962
20. Diane Winston, Burning Monk, Saigon, 1963
21. David Lubin, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, 1963
22. Victoria Gao, Chinese Political Persecution, Red Square, Harbin, 1966
23. Robert Hariman and John Lucaites, Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon, 1968
24. Gennifer Weisenfeld, Industrial Poisoning, Minamata, 1972
25. Christian Delage, Police Beating, Los Angeles, 1992
26. Liam Kennedy, The Situation Room, Washington, DC, 2011

Part Two: Re-Thinking the History of News Pictures:
Part Introduction

a) News Pictures and Press Genres
1. Justine de Young, Not Just a Pretty Picture: Fashion as News
2. Ryan Linkof, Celebrity Photos and Stolen Moments: Witnessing the Lives of Others
3. Ulrich Keller, Pictorial Press Reportage and Censorship in the First World War
4. Thierry Gervais, Illustrating Sports, or the Invention of the Magazine
5. Will Straw, After the Event: The Challenges of Crime Photography

b) News Picture Media
6. Michael Leja, News Pictures in the Early Years of Mass Visual Culture in New York: Lithographs and the Penny Press
7. Jordana Mendelson, Beautiful Contradictions: News Pictures and Modern Magazines
8. Joe Clark, “Public Forum of the Screen”: Modernity, Mobility, and Debate at the Newsreel Cinema
9. Mike Conway, “See it Now”: Television News
10. Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Collective Self-Representation and the News: Torture at Abu-Ghraib

c) News Picture Time
11. Jordan Bear, Adrift: The Time and Space of the News in Géricault’s Le Radeau de La Méduse
12. Jason Hill, Snap-Shot After Bullet Hit Gaynor
13. Andrés Zervigón, Rotogravure and the Modern Aesthetic of News Reporting
14. Zeynep Gursel, A Short History of Wire Service Photography

d) Speaking of News Pictures
15. Jennifer Tucker, “Famished for News Pictures”: Mason Jackson, The Illustrated London News, and the Pictorial Spirit
16. Patricia Goldsworthy, Staying Close to Power: Picturing the King’s Entourage in Turn-of-the-Century Morocco
17. Nadya Bair, A Photojournalist is Never Alone: Photo Editing and Collaboration in the History of News Pictures
18. Kim Timby, Look at those Lollipops!: Integrating Color into News Pictures

e) News Picture Connoisseurship
19. Katie Hornstein, Horace Vernet's Capture of the Smahla: Reportage and Actuality in the Early French Illustrated Press
20. Vincent Lavoie, Appraising News Pictures: Awarding a Multifaceted Icon
21. Kristen Gresh, An Era of Photographic Controversy: Edward Steichen at the MoMA
22. Gaëlle Morel, Photojournalism as Formal Paradigm in Contemporary Art
23. Erina Duganne, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, and World Press Photo: Contemporary Art and Contemporary Photojournalism

Selected Bibliography
Index