Introduction

Reading Magazines: Stefan Lorant And Picture Post, 1939-1941 : A Study Of The Picture Editor's Work From The Archive Of Modern Conflict's Collection

“…In Photography and Society Freund states that Lorant developed the concept of the photo story, "in which a series of images would depict one central subject." 106 The author described Lorant's work for MIP as focused on the graphic presentation of photographs, rather than their arrangement in a succession of images, text and captions. 107…”

Time and Technology

“…Even a slave could produce a``perfectly correct representation'' in less than five minutes (Peale, 1988, page 249, quoted in Knipe, 1999. French photographer and writer Gise© le Freund was in 1974Freund was in (1980 among the first to recognize the social and historical importance of this machine. She noticed that the personal skill and`touch' of the miniature portrait paintersöwhich had been so highly esteemed in the mid-18th centuryöwas almost instantly devaluated with the appearance of the physiognotrace.…”

“…(4) This term comes from the title of a lithograph by Theodor Maurisset from 1840 picturing the frenzy with which the public embraced photography (seeBatchen, 1999;Freund, 1980).…”

The Photographic Construction of Tourist Space in Victorian America

“…Photographs of geographical phenomena, when compared with other media, seem objective, true, and uncluttered by the whims of artists or the dictates of ideology. Born in the Victorian era from the seemingly perfect marriage of science and art, photography appeared to be the ideal medium for nature to copy herself with utter accuracy and exactitude (Freund 1980;Marien 1997;Ryan 1997); indeed, the notion that a photograph repeats its original, that it is less a copy than a simulacrum, remains with us (Trachtenberg 1991). The conventional idea of photography's infallibility is not a demonstrable truth, however, but a belief held with the irrational conviction of myth.…”