News art : manipulated photographs from the Burns Archive / Stanley B. Burns, Sara Cleary-Burns.

By:

Burns, Stanley B

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Burns Archive bookPublication details: New York : PowerHouse, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 127 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:

9781576874646 (hbk.)
1576874648 (hbk.)

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: News art.DDC classification:

779.09 BUR

Partial contents:

History of printing photographs -- Altering & manipulating photographs -- Dispersion of newspaper photographs -- Manipulation techniques.

Summary: "... presents the unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography, and journalism. It is the first work to document the fascinating combination of art and photography necessary to achieve accurate copy or story emphasis in newspapers. These images from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement-- from simple outlining or airbrushing to complete overpainting. They are all individual creations, one-of-akind photographs. Even if other newspapers used a copy of the same photograph, as was often the case, the artistic preparation was unique. The subjects are as varied as our world: crime scenes, world events, social and business personalities, and human interest stories. All were important in their time and some stand as timeless icons."--Amazon.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	779.09 BUR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100576959

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop and reveals how newspaper editors would doctor images for effect and intent. These images, from 1900-1960, illustrate the range of art enhancement, from outlining and airbrushing to complete overpainting with subjects ranging from crime scenes, world events and social personalities. Presenting original photographs in an area still open to dicovery and collecting, NEWS ART is a guide for collectors and curators.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [124]-125).

History of printing photographs -- Altering & manipulating photographs -- Dispersion of newspaper photographs -- Manipulation techniques.

"... presents the unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography, and journalism. It is the first work to document the fascinating combination of art and photography necessary to achieve accurate copy or story emphasis in newspapers. These images from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement-- from simple outlining or airbrushing to complete overpainting. They are all individual creations, one-of-akind photographs. Even if other newspapers used a copy of the same photograph, as was often the case, the artistic preparation was unique. The subjects are as varied as our world: crime scenes, world events, social and business personalities, and human interest stories. All were important in their time and some stand as timeless icons."--Amazon.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Stanley B. Burns, MD, FACS, a practicing New York City ophthalmic surgeon, is also an internationally distinguished photo-historian, author, lecturer, curator, and collector. He has written 17 award-winning photohistory books and hundreds of articles, curated dozens of exhibitions, and collected 800,000 images, including the most comprehensive compilation of early hand-colored photography. In 1995, he published Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame, an exposé on the art of painting photographs that explored the close relationship that hand-colored photographs have to paintings. In 2006, he penned Geisha: A Photographic History 1872-1912, documenting the painted photographs of Japan, concentrating on the portrayal of Geisha and their traditional arts and distinguishing them from the prostitute classes.