News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive - Hardcover

Burns, Stanley; Cleary-Burns, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1576874648 ISBN 13: 9781576874646

Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

An unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography and journalism, takes the reader back to the days before Photoshop abd 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, this book provides a guide to collectors and curators.

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Review

"The photo-diagram/sketch images not only depicted dramatic events but also artistically and vividly illustrated the unfolding of each episode." -- Stanley B. Burns, MD

About the Author

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.

Sara Cleary-Burns has been involved in the art world for many years. Since 1985 she has chosen to concentrate on photography as art, specializing in early hand-colored images in their original frames, as well as manipulated photographs. In pursuit of these interests she turned her hand to mounting and presenting museum exhibitions, such as the highly successful Forgotten Marriage, which toured throughout the United States. As an archivist, administrator, fundraiser, and publicist, she has been involved with some of the major photographic collections of the United States.

Jeff Rosenheim is the Curator of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. An influential advocate for photography as a significant art medium, Rosenheim was responsible for bringing to the Metropolitan the complete archives of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus. He has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad, and has taught at Columbia University, NYU, and Bard College.

About this edition

• Publisher: powerHouse Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1576874648
• ISBN 13: 9781576874646
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 127