American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings

by Claude Cookman

Book Overview

Photojournalism has long been the medium of urgency and social change. It has profoundly affected American public opinion, going back at least to Mathew Brady's images from the Civil War. In American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings, Claude Cookman explores the history and future of the medium through the work of such exemplary photojournalists as Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange, Weegee, Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, Gordon...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810123584
• ISBN13: 9780810123588
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"