1st Edition
The Making of Visual News A History of Photography in the Press
Biography
Thierry Gervais is Assistant Professor at Ryerson University and Head of Research at the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), Toronto, Canada. He is the co-author of La photographie. Histoire, technique, presse, art and Photographies et magazines d'actualite (both with Gaelle Morel), and fomer editor in chief of Etudes photographiques. Gaelle Morel is an art historian and the Exhibitions Curator at the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada. She has edited Les Derniers Tableaux. Photojournalisme et art contemporain and co-authored several books with Thierry Gervais. She is a former member of the board of the Societe francaise de photographie, and a member of the editorial committee of the bilingual journal Etudes photographiques.
Richly illustrated and clearly written, this book firmly and definitively anchors such well-known mid-century photo weekly magazines as LIFE in a much longer history. Photojournalism is meticulously and meaningfully given its vital role in shaping information and communication since the nineteenth century in this excellent survey - Co-Editor of Getting the Picture and The Visual Culture of the News - Vanessa R. Schwartz
