Histories of the Press I – Picture Post and the Post War Settlement, Journalism and the 60s
#1 Picture Post Magazine
1938-1957By 1943: 1,950,000 copies a week
Stefan LorantTom Hopkinson (1940 ff)Edward G HultonBert HardyGrace Robertson
Picture magazinePhotojournalism
The LeicaFast roll film
Journalism and photojournalismWartime Britain
The Home Guard‘What are we fighting for?’
Postwar Britain‘Homes fit for heroes’The Beveridge Report – ‘Plan for Britain’‘Britain’Butskillism
Text does not exist outside practicesText/practices do not exist outside ideasText/practices/ideas do not exist outside of
time.
#2 The new journalism
Tom WolfeHunter S ThompsonTruman CapoteNorman MailerMichael Herr
Scenes rather than historical narrativeDialogue in full. ConversationFirst-person point of view Author as participantEveryday details
What can you find that is ‘new’ in the form and content of a piece of New Journalism?
1963-1972Camelot and JFKBobby KennedyMartin Luther KingWatergateBlack Panthers
Pop ArtLSD StockhausenEarthrise 1968Mariner 1965Vietnam
Mai ’68Czech SpringChicago Democratic convention
New ways of seeing – point of viewNew powers – the great American Novel,
quotesDeath of dreams – punctuation, language,
accent
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