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| ISBN 978-1597110143 |
This is probably the only book that considers photojournalism from before the twentieth century up to 1973. Current affairs titles originally used woodcuts until halftones could be made from photos in 1884. Now a photo from any event could be printed for the world to see. The author has used his collection of European and American publications to reveal the development of this important news source.
The nine chapters, each with an introduction in German and English use captioned spreads from news magazines rather pages from daily papers. A couple of points about the presentation: I thought the images could have been a bit larger on each page and they are a bit too dark overall. Other than that i thought Lebeck's book an interesting overview of photojournalism. A book that brings the subject more up to date is Things as they are, photojournalism since 1955 to 2006. An excellent survey that uses reproductions of spreads like Kiosk.
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